Adam Smith
Board Director at Dropbox, Rescale, Cruise, Modern Treasury, others
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Smith is a seasoned technology founder, operator, and investor with 11 years of documented experience scaling developer-focused products and large engineering organizations from San Jose. He founded and led two notable startups—Xobni, which powered email experiences used by hundreds of millions after acquisition, and Kite, an early AI coding assistant adopted by over 500,000 monthly users and later acquired by Affirm—then served as VP of Engineering at Affirm and now sits on Rescale’s board. Adam blends hands-on engineering (notably JavaScript algorithm work on LeetCode solutions) with strategic leadership, having built growth engineering teams, redesigned onboarding and cross-team contribution processes, and launched major product integrations like the Affirm Card. An active seed investor across Dropbox, Cruise, Modern Treasury and others, he brings operator empathy to early-stage companies as well as governance experience at scale. He holds a BS in Computer Science from MIT and quietly balances deep technical fluency with a talent for spotting product-market timing—often backing ideas before the broader market catches up.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (16)
data-structures10
algorithms10
javascript10
data-structure10
lintcode10
dynamic-programming9
binary-search9
backtracking9
recursion9
hashtable8
breadth-first-search7
stacker7
pointer7
stack7
depth-first-search7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
neetcode-gh/leetcode
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
Leetcode solutions
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:102 commits, 19 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed JavaScript solutions for LeetCode problems, focusing on algorithms and data structures. Their work involved implementing various solutions with different time and space complexities. The contributions included solutions for problems related to trapping rain water, walls and gates, permutation in strings, search a 2D matrix, Koko eating bananas, Kth largest element in a stream, combination sum, combination sum II, valid Sudoku, longest consecutive sequence, LRU cache, Pacific Atlantic water flow, and more.
pythonleetcodejavascriptleetcode-solutionsjava
imaginate/vitals
Apr 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:38 releases, 582 pushes, 22 branches in 2 years 7 months
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