Summary
Adam Peña is a founder and Full-Stack AI engineer with 10 years of experience building high-performance, accessible UI infrastructure and production-ready AI systems. He has led frontend and experimentation platforms at Cash App and Plaid, driving major performance, SEO, and WCAG compliance wins while enabling faster cross-team shipping. As founder of Cindersoft he consults for AI startups backed by top investors and launched AIO Ready, a usability-testing platform that simulates agent behavior and integrates with CI/CD. His work blends deep frontend craftsmanship—real-time transcription, per-user voice model training, and scalable document crawlers—with pragmatic product instincts that measurably improve conversion and retention. Based in Houston, he pairs hands-on implementation with program-level impact, from apprenticeship leadership to company-wide accessibility programs.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, japanese, Spanish, korean