David Adams
COO & Co-Founder at Conduit Security
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Adams is an operationally focused co-founder and COO with six years in startup leadership and two decades of experience across finance and asset management. He leads Conduit Security, building processes and software to prevent wire fraud, translating deep risk-management expertise from family offices and hedge fund oversight into product and operational design. Prior roles as Managing Director and COO/PM show a consistent ability to scale teams, governance, and client-facing operations in complex, regulated environments. Based in the Chicago area and grounded in an economics education from Vanderbilt with study at LSE, he blends quantitative discipline with practical business execution. A homelab enthusiast, he brings hands-on curiosity for infrastructure and tooling that keeps his approach technical as well as strategic. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic operator who turns compliance and security challenges into repeatable, software-driven solutions.
6 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Economics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Economics at Vanderbilt UniversityLondon School of Economics and Political Science
Github Skills (22)
apache-druid10
database10
druid10
aws9
inference8
cloud-infrastructure8
typescript8
infrastructure-as-code7
llama7
inpainting7
cloud-development-kit7
generative-art6
windows6
linux6
json6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
funguy-tech/aws-cdk
Aug 2023 - Aug 2023
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
funguy-tech/druid
Sep 2024 - Sep 2024
Apache Druid: a high performance real-time analytics database.
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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