Alex Adams
Chief Of Staff at RDX Works Ltd
Stockholm, Stockholm County, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Adams is a founder, investor and CEO with 14 years’ experience building mission-driven companies and advising high-growth health and tech ventures from Stockholm. He leads Wig & Pen, an impact-focused consultancy and early-stage investor that has supported multiple unicorns, and holds active leadership roles in personalised cancer treatment, psychedelic healthcare and healthtech funds. A former corporate lawyer turned operator, Alex combines legal rigour with hands-on product and strategy work across biotech, DeFi and consumer tech. He is also an active open-source contributor with cryptography and Swift expertise—having made fixes and cryptographic enhancements to high-profile projects such as Swift and SwiftCrypto and implemented elliptic-curve routines for BitcoinKit. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic connector who moves between boardrooms, codebases and clinical science to scale evidence-driven solutions. Outside work he’s a FOSS author and HoMM3 fan, signalling a mix of technical curiosity and long-term strategic play.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Diploma in Law / Legal Practice Course Law, Graduate Diploma in Law / Legal Practice Course Law at BPP Law SchoolMaster's Degree Classics and Ancient History, Master's Degree Classics and Ancient History at University of ExeterUniversity College London
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (25)
ec10
crypto10
bitcoin-abc10
testing10
elliptic-curve10
elliptic-curve-cryptography10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
cryptography10
swift10
documentation10
xctest9
ios9
uitest9
xcode9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
swiftlang/swift
Apr 2019 - Mar 2025
The Swift Programming Language
Role in this project:
Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:43 reviews, 18 PRs, 66 comments in 6 years
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to fixing typos and minor documentation issues across the Swift programming language repository. They corrected errors in various files, including source code, documentation (SIL.rst), and test scripts (benchmark/scripts, test/concurrency). The commits involved updating the benchmark and test files, ensuring accurate wording within the Swift ecosystem.
programming-languageswift
yenom/BitcoinKit
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
Bitcoin protocol toolkit for Swift
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 24 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to implementing core BitcoinKit features, specifically focusing on elliptic curve cryptography and related mathematical operations. Their work includes the addition of an EC point multiplication method and integration of methods for calculating public keys. They also refactored and organized the codebase, moving components into separate files to enhance readability and maintainability. This suggests a strong understanding of cryptographic principles and software architecture within the Bitcoin protocol context.
bitcoinswiftbitcoincashbchbtc
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