# Adair Kelley

> Software engineer, startup founder, classical oboist. Building AI products and automating everything.

## Quick Facts
- Name: Adair Kelley
- Location: United States
- Email: adair@abstract.money
- Website: https://adairkelley.com

## Current Focus
AI-powered AR language learning iOS app.

## Professional Background

### Abstract Money (2022-2025) - Co-founder & CEO
Co-founded and grew a B2B developer infrastructure platform to $300K ARR. Shipped hands-on with customer engineering teams to take ambiguous requirements from prototypes to deployment.
- Architected and built React/TypeScript frontends, API layer, and integration tooling; owned production interfaces for account workflows, operational dashboards, and partner-facing tooling
- Co-designed Rust-based developer framework enabling teams to build, test, and deploy multi-blockchain applications through modular, reusable components
- Shipped working MVPs in under a week across 8+ customer engagements, closing a $200K+ contract from a four-day prototype sprint that 5x'd company revenue

### Amazon Web Services (2021-2022) - Software Development Engineer
Developer on AWS Network Firewall.
- Designed approach and implemented core features for dynamically resolving IP set references to Resource Groups in customer-provided rules using SNS, SQS, Lambda, and multi-threaded Java workers
- Aided implementation of same feature for VPC Prefix Lists
- Supported launch and global deployment of Managed Rules feature to enable customers to use auto-updating rulesets

### Amazon Web Services (2020) - Software Development Engineer Intern
Intern on AWS Network Firewall.
- Integrated with AWS Service Quotas APIs to allow customers to view and manage resource limits externally, maintaining synchronization between relevant internal services in different cells
- Designed and implemented a feature in Java to allow static sets of ports and IPs (within firewall rule groups) to be referenced in Network Firewall-compatible Suricata rules
- Wrote a developer tool in Python to interact with CloudFormation Transform, CodeBuild, and CodePipeline APIs allowing for faster iteration via local deployments and rollbacks to microservices

### IQ Talent Partners (2019) - Full-Stack SDE Intern
Built internal tooling for recruiters.
- Utilized Ruby on Rails and JavaScript to implement a merger/aliaser for model tags on recruiting application to consolidate identifiers
- Ideated and realized a database-to-excel export tool with mailer via JavaScript (Vue), sidekiq with ActiveJob, and axlsx gem alongside corresponding integration testing
- Formulated model and integration tests for a dozen interconnected models, subsequently improving testing speed by 30% via Devise gem sign-in helper with key stretching

## Technical Skills
- Languages: TypeScript, Java, Rust, Python, Ruby, Solidity
- Blockchain: CosmWasm, Cosmos SDK, IBC
- AI/ML: Claude, LLMs
- Infrastructure: AWS (Network Firewall, IAM, CloudWatch, Lambda, SQS/SNS, DynamoDB, VPC, EC2, CloudFormation), Kubernetes, CI/CD

## Hackathon Track Record
- HackWasm Medellin 2022: Equilibrium - $25,000 (1st Place)
- Hackmos Dubai 2024: InMail Treasury - $13,000 (1st Osmosis, Most Innovative Product)
- ETHGlobal New York 2025: Pika Vault - $11,000 (1st LayerZero Best Omnichain DeFi, ETHGlobal Finalist)
- Celestia Infinite Space Bazaar 2024: Interchain Mail - $10,000 (2 Grand Prizes + Bounty)
- AwesomWasm Berlin 2024: Mesh Governance - $5,000 (2nd Place, Neutron Track)
- Permissionless IV 2024: Daivest - $3,000 (Forte 2nd Place)

## Speaking
- ETH Denver 2025 (Feb 2025): "Chain Abstracted Asynchronous Application Architectures" - https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qhi1wZB9Ei4
- Cosmoverse 2024 (Oct 2024): "Abstract Money in 3 Minutes" - https://youtube.com/watch?v=4SZkJVnCi24
- Nebular Summit 2024 (Jul 2024): "Community Governance and Public Goods Funding" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p37Xx9h1JHE
- Nebular Summit 2023 (Jul 2023): "When All You Have is Cosmos, Everything Looks Like a Chain" - https://youtube.com/watch?v=5biJAkm3FoA
- The Interop Podcast (Jun 2024): "The Interchain Application Layer" - https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/seb2point0/episodes/The-Interchain-Application-Layer-with-Adair-Kelley-of-Abstract-e2rov8q

## Writing
- Article (Medium, Mar 2024): "A High-Level Overview of Abstract Money, Interchain App Platform" - https://medium.com/abstract-money/a-high-level-overview-of-abstract-moneys-interchain-app-platform-d30813c7a1b4
- Article (Paragraph, Nov 2023): "The Origin of Abstract Money" - https://paragraph.com/@adair/abstract-money-origins

## Research
- Paper (Frontiers in Blockchain, Jul 2023): "Design pattern recommendations for building decentralized healthcare applications" - https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/blockchain/articles/10.3389/fbloc.2023.1006058/full

## Education
Vanderbilt University - Computer Science and Oboe Performance (Blair School of Music) (Aug 2017 - May 2021)

## Personal Interests
- Classical oboist (performed with California Philharmonic)
- Learning Korean (systematic language for systematic thinkers)
- Types in Programmer Dvorak
- Piano: Currently working on Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23 No. 5

## Open Source
- Abstract SDK: https://github.com/AbstractSDK/abstract
- cw-orchestrator: https://github.com/AbstractSDK/cw-orchestrator
- Abstract.js: https://github.com/AbstractSDK/abstract.js
- ts-codegen: https://github.com/hyperweb-io/ts-codegen

## Links
- GitHub: https://github.com/adairrr
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/devadair
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/CyberAdair
- DoraHacks: https://dorahacks.io/hacker/adair

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