Adam Watkins
Senior AI Engineer at ClickUp
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAdam Watkins is a Senior AI Engineer and startup CTO with eight years of experience building production-grade AI and backend systems from research labs to YC-backed startups. He co-founded and led technical strategy at Reworkd, then moved to ClickUp where he focuses on agent-driven workflows, combining product leadership with hands-on implementation. Previously he delivered a 500x performance improvement on a complex event-driven fulfillment system and led large decoupling efforts at Article, and earlier built compliant clinical data pipelines and NLP tools for BC Cancer used across provincial health systems. An active open-source contributor, he has improved tooling like a FastAPI CRUD router and contributed practical docs and front-end refinements. Based in Vancouver, he blends startup grit, academic grounding from Simon Fraser and YC, and a knack for turning domain complexity into performant, maintainable systems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
S23 Batch, S23 Batch at Y CombinatorBachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
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Github Skills (11)
css10
javascript10
documentation10
ajax6
dart6
pydantic6
fastapi6
jquery6
python6
optimization6
flutter6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
awtkns/fastapi-crudrouter
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
A dynamic FastAPI router that automatically creates CRUD routes for your models
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 52 reviews, 413 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on updating documentation for the `termynal.js` file, fixing documentation, and refactoring code. This included improvements to CSS and JavaScript files. They also merged changes from the origin/master branch.
code-generationpythonredocroutescrud
qurit/awesome-qurit
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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