Adam Paulisick
Chief Executive Officer at maad labs
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Paulisick is a product-and-innovation-focused CEO who blends academic rigor with enterprise-scale product experience to build Skilly, a company reimagining the web as a network of conversational guides. With a decade-plus career spanning senior roles at Nielsen and BCG and teaching and research appointments at Carnegie Mellon, he combines commercialization muscle with deep human-computer interaction and applied-AI expertise. He designs technologies that prioritize navigable outcomes over information overload, translating lab-driven insights into real-world customer journeys and measurable business value. Founder of maad labs and an executive educator, he helps leaders operationalize AI while running hands-on experiments in humanity-centered design. Unusually, he runs corporate retreats on his farmette and channels those experiential practices back into product and team design, reflecting a pragmatic, people-first approach to technical leadership.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Management (Minor in Data Structures), Bachelor's degree Management (Minor in Data Structures) at Case Western Reserve UniversityExecutive Education Certificate Selling Skills and Sales Operations, Executive Education Certificate Selling Skills and Sales Operations at Harvard Business School
Github Skills (46)
service-mesh10
netty10
http10
distributed-systems10
java10
restful10
rpc10
passwords10
microservices10
high-performance10
grpc10
apache9
visualization9
cron9
canvas9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SkillyZ/java-spring
Dec 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:202 commits, 166 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
SkillyZ/drawmad
Sep 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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