Adam Lindsay
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Lindsay is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building large-scale recommendation and content systems, now shaping Search & Recommendations at Airbnb from San Jose. He drove Netflix’s evolution of personalization—from early niche recommenders to machine-learning-powered online systems—building full-stack feedback loops that connect front-end product needs to studio operations. A former co-founder and chief scientist, he has deep expertise in architecting horizontally scalable back-ends for millions of users and a research pedigree spanning MPEG-7 and multimedia systems. Trained at MIT and Lancaster (PhD), he blends rigorous academic foundations with pragmatic engineering, often translating complex semantic models into production-ready infrastructure. Less obvious: he repeatedly bridges research and product, turning standards and multimedia research into operational systems that influence large-scale content ecosystems.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
SM Media Arts & Sciences, SM Media Arts & Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPhD Computing, PhD Computing at Lancaster University
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Github Skills (24)
http-signature9
signature9
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jail7
dbus7
python-client7
starlark6
pythonic6
python6
freebsd6
redis5
redis-streams4
linux4
redis-client4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
atl/py-smartdc
Apr 2012 - Nov 2014
Contributions:166 commits in 2 years 7 months
connectorpythoncloudapifastapi
atl/twitstream
Sep 2009 - Oct 2011
A simple asynchronous HTTP library in python for speaking with Twitter's streaming API, with numerous example applications.
Contributions:9 commits in 2 years 1 month
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