Keith Adams
Founding Partner at ICONIQ Capital
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKeith Adams is a founding partner at Pebblebed who helps turn technical secrets into companies, leveraging 15+ years of deep systems and platform engineering experience. Previously Slack’s Chief Architect and an early engineer on Facebook’s HipHop VM and AI research systems, he’s comfortable moving between low-level virtualization work and high-scale distributed services. Based in San Francisco, he advises and invests across AI, dev tools, and databases, bringing hands-on technical critique to early teams (e.g., queuing theory and unit-economics help for KREA.ai). His career blends production-grade systems design—from VMware hypervisor innovations to Slack’s enterprise architecture—with an unusual habit of prototyping high-risk, high-reward infrastructure ideas that later become mainstream.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Brown University
Spanish
Github Skills (43)
pattern-recognition10
string-parsing10
parser10
hacklang10
ndjson10
string-matching10
substring10
string-search10
virtual-machine10
beautifulsoup10
hhvm10
php10
csv10
json9
simd8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kmapb/microlm
Feb 2023 - Oct 2023
A very smol language model
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 69 pushes in 7 months
kmapb/dotfiles
Jun 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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