Adam Wolff
Software Engineer at Elastic Process
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarAdam Wolff is a San Francisco–based software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and advising startups. He contributes to high-performance, collaborative developer tools—most notably backend telemetry and AI assist features for Zed, the multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. Adam focuses on instrumentation, model experimentation, and refining AI context to make intelligent features measurable and reliable in production. Equally comfortable shipping pragmatic fixes and designing experimentable telemetry, he blends product-minded engineering with an advisor’s perspective. Colleagues rely on him to turn fuzzy AI requirements into observable, production-ready behavior that drives better product decisions.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
gpu10
rust10
telemetry10
ml9
aiml9
machine-learning9
ai9
text-editor8
rust-lang7
concurrency6
warnings6
comet6
java6
facebook6
safari6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zed-industries/zed
Sep 2024 - Nov 2024
Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 PRs, 10 comments, 5 issues in 2 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Zed editor, focusing on telemetry and assistant features. They refactored telemetry requests, added tracking fields to the Codegen module for experimental data gathering, and implemented features to track completions for each CodegenAlternative, indicating a focus on performance monitoring and model experimentation. Additionally, the user made refinements to AI context prompts, suggesting involvement in enhancing the editor's intelligent features.
code-editormultiplayertree-sittertext-editorzed
wolffiex/shack
May 2024 - Jul 2026
Contributions:74 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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