Adam Walz
Software Engineer at Butter.ai
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Walz is a software engineer and founder with 12 years of experience designing distributed systems and machine learning-powered search. As CTO and co-founder of Butter.ai (acquired by Box) he architected scalable, secure search services and personally contributed a large share of the code while building and growing engineering teams. His track record includes shipping Evernote’s patented Descriptive Search and founding Mangabi, a PaaS that removed boilerplate for search-driven apps, demonstrating a deep focus on making information more discoverable and people more productive. Comfortable across Python, search engines (Solr/Elastic/Lucene), cloud infrastructure and ML stacks, he blends hands-on engineering with product and hiring leadership. He also brings an educator’s perspective from teaching computer science and theatre, which informs his clear communication and emphasis on usable, human-centered interfaces.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahHigh School, High School at Juan Diego Catholic High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (97)
md510
rsa10
rsa-cryptography10
hash-functions10
mongoose10
cryptoswift10
solr10
keyboard10
keyboard-layout10
aes-gcm10
golang10
lucene10
digest10
des10
hmac-authentication10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
adamwalz/dotfiles
Sep 2013 - Dec 2019
Contributions:235 commits, 61 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 4 months
adamwalz/adamwalz.github.io
Dec 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:155 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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