Adam Nelson
Founder And CTO at Elastio Software
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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RockstarAdam Nelson is a seasoned software leader and founder with 20 years’ experience building resilient data protection systems and leading large global engineering organizations. As Co-Founder and CTO of Elastio, he focuses on protecting cloud applications and data from ransomware and cyber threats, bringing hands-on architectural experience from roles at Quest, Dell, and AppAssure where he scaled teams and products worldwide. He combines deep systems-level engineering—evident from low-level contributions like optimizing the zstd JNI bindings for direct ByteBuffer performance—with executive strategy, board governance, and product delivery. Based in Miami but living between the U.S. and Ukraine, Adam blends entrepreneurial grit with a proven track record of growing R&D organizations, building offshore teams, and shipping mission-critical backup and recovery software.
20 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
c1110
java10
bytebuffer10
c1710
javas10
jna10
compression10
android8
scala8
rgb6
pinvoke6
windows6
virtual-machine6
interop6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
luben/zstd-jni
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
JNI binding for Zstd
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on adding Java wrappers and C implementations for compressing and decompressing data using direct `ByteBuffer` objects, optimizing the library for improved performance with native memory management. They added unit tests to verify the functionality of the `ByteBuffer`-based methods. Further, the user fixed a bug in the benchmark test to accurately report the compression ratio. Additional tests were implemented to enhance test coverage for the functionality.
lossless-compression-algorithmcompressionandroidzstdjava
anelson/tracers
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
Ergonomic Rust bindings for instrumenting Rust apps with high performance probes using SystemTap, DTrace, etc
Contributions:340 commits, 103 pushes in 9 months
systemtaprustergonomicperformanceprobes
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