Adam Jeffries
Strategic Advisor
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Jeffries is a strategic advisor and seasoned software engineering leader with 11 years of experience designing and building web applications across startups and large enterprises. He has led engineering teams at Kaggle and Citadel, served as CEO and advisor at Metaplex Studios, and co-founded Safety Design, blending product vision with hands-on full-stack development. His work spans front-end UX improvements, back-end systems, and platformops—examples include driving instant-sale functionality in the Metaplex NFT stack and contributing to the initial release of Kaggle Environments. Known for scaling teams and hiring rigor (building Scaled Inference from 4 to 17 engineers), he also has deep experience running customer integrations and shipping production ML/competition infrastructure. Based in Chicago, he combines entrepreneurial grit from founding consulting firms with enterprise-grade execution honed at Google and Amazon. He prefers rolling up his sleeves to bridge product, design, and engineering while contributing to notable open-source projects in the data and web3 ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
software-design10
python10
testing10
css10
metaplex10
front-end-development10
solana10
nft10
docusaurus10
react10
apidoc9
api9
rust9
typescripts8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
metaplex-foundation/metaplex
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
A directory of what the Metaplex Foundation works on!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 40 commits, 9 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Adam's contributions primarily focused on developing and integrating features for an instant sale functionality within a web application, specifically within the context of a digital asset marketplace built using the Metaplex framework. The changes span both the frontend and backend with a focus on enabling users to purchase digital assets at a fixed price. This included UI/UX updates, setting up the mechanics for instant sale functionality, and ensuring seamless integration. Additionally, the user implemented testing code to validate the correct execution of various auction scenarios.
metaplexnftrustjssolana
Kaggle/kaggle-environments
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 42 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
Contributions summary:Adam's primary contribution involves the initial release of the `kaggle-environments` project, including core functionality and the TicTacToe environment. Their work includes setting up the base structure for environments, interpreter and renderer functions, and processing specifications and configurations. They also implemented an environment training helper and made enhancements such as adding keyboard controls to the player. Further contributions include improvements to the player legend and ConnectX and TicTacToe features.
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