{ "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json", "basics": { "name": "Adair Kelley", "label": "Software Engineer & Founder", "image": "https://adairkelley.com/images/adair-photo.png", "email": "adair@abstract.money", "url": "https://adairkelley.com", "summary": "Software engineer, startup founder, classical oboist. Building AI products and automating everything. Co-founder & CEO at Abstract Money, building developer tools for multi-blockchain applications. Previously worked on AWS Network Firewall.", "location": { "countryCode": "US" }, "profiles": [ { "network": "GitHub", "username": "adairrr", "url": "https://github.com/adairrr" }, { "network": "LinkedIn", "username": "devadair", "url": "https://linkedin.com/in/devadair" }, { "network": "Twitter", "username": "CyberAdair", "url": "https://twitter.com/CyberAdair" } ] }, "work": [ { "name": "Abstract Money", "position": "Co-founder & CEO", "url": "https://abstract.money", "startDate": "2022-05", "endDate": "2025-10", "summary": "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.", "highlights": [ "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. Supported 250K+ downstream end-users with coordinated transactions across multiple networks.", "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.", "Embedded on-site with customer engineering teams across 4 countries for weeks-long pilots, translating requirements into production integrations and driving launches.", "Delivered workshops and technical talks at 10+ international events, accelerating customer adoption and debugging integration issues.", "Built automated CI/CD pipeline on Kubernetes using Docker, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD; managed containerized deployments across multiple environments.", "Built and maintained technical partnerships with platform teams and application developers; created repeatable pilot programs and integration frameworks for rapid deployment.", "Grew to $300K ARR through B2B2C contracts and application revenue; managed go-to-market strategy and customer success.", "Hired and led 6-person engineering team alongside Co-founder and CTO Robin Bisschop.", "Raised venture capital and maintained investor relationships; handled reporting and strategic planning." ] }, { "name": "Amazon Web Services", "position": "Software Development Engineer", "url": "https://aws.amazon.com", "startDate": "2021-08", "endDate": "2022-05", "summary": "Developer on AWS Network Firewall.", "highlights": [ "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.", "Refactored multi-threaded customer resource polling worker using multiple design patterns for more maintainable code." ] }, { "name": "Amazon Web Services", "position": "Software Development Engineer Intern", "url": "https://aws.amazon.com", "startDate": "2020-05", "endDate": "2020-10", "summary": "Intern on AWS Network Firewall.", "highlights": [ "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.", "Led the integration testing effort for the migration from X-ENI to Gateway Load Balancer." ] }, { "name": "IQ Talent Partners", "position": "Full-Stack SDE Intern", "startDate": "2019-05", "endDate": "2019-08", "summary": "Built internal tooling for recruiters.", "highlights": [ "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." ] } ], "publications": [ { "name": "A High-Level Overview of Abstract Money, Interchain App Platform", "publisher": "Medium", "releaseDate": "2024-03", "url": "https://medium.com/abstract-money/a-high-level-overview-of-abstract-moneys-interchain-app-platform-d30813c7a1b4", "summary": "Article" }, { "name": "The Origin of Abstract Money", "publisher": "Paragraph", "releaseDate": "2023-11", "url": "https://paragraph.com/@adair/abstract-money-origins", "summary": "Article" }, { "name": "Design pattern recommendations for building decentralized healthcare applications", "publisher": "Frontiers in Blockchain", "releaseDate": "2023-07", "url": "https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/blockchain/articles/10.3389/fbloc.2023.1006058/full", "summary": "Academic paper" } ], "education": [ { "institution": "Vanderbilt University", "area": "Computer Science and Oboe Performance (Blair School of Music)", "studyType": "Bachelor's", "startDate": "2017-08", "endDate": "2021-05", "courses": [] } ], "awards": [ { "title": "HackWasm Medellin 2022 - 1st Place", "date": "2022", "awarder": "HackWasm", "summary": "Equilibrium - 1st Place ($25,000)" }, { "title": "Hackmos Dubai 2024 - 1st Osmosis", "date": "2024", "awarder": "Hackmos", "summary": "InMail Treasury - 1st Osmosis, Most Innovative Product ($13,000)" }, { "title": "ETHGlobal New York 2025 - 1st LayerZero Best Omnichain DeFi", "date": "2025", "awarder": "ETHGlobal", "summary": "Pika Vault - 1st LayerZero Best Omnichain DeFi, ETHGlobal Finalist ($11,000)" }, { "title": "Celestia Infinite Space Bazaar 2024 - 2 Grand Prizes + Bounty", "date": "2024", "awarder": "Celestia", "summary": "Interchain Mail - 2 Grand Prizes + Bounty ($10,000)" }, { "title": "AwesomWasm Berlin 2024 - 2nd Place", "date": "2024", "awarder": "AwesomWasm", "summary": "Mesh Governance - 2nd Place, Neutron Track ($5,000)" }, { "title": "Cosmoverse 2024 Pitch Competition Winner", "date": "2024", "awarder": "Cosmoverse", "summary": "Pitch Competition Winner" } ], "skills": [ { "name": "Languages", "keywords": [ "TypeScript", "Java", "Rust", "Python", "Ruby", "Solidity" ] }, { "name": "Blockchain", "keywords": [ "CosmWasm", "Cosmos SDK", "IBC Protocol", "Smart Contracts" ] }, { "name": "AI/ML", "keywords": [ "LLM Integration", "Claude/Anthropic", "AR/VR" ] }, { "name": "Infrastructure", "keywords": [ "AWS", "Kubernetes", "Terraform", "Docker" ] } ], "languages": [ { "language": "English", "fluency": "Native" }, { "language": "Korean", "fluency": "Learning" } ], "interests": [ { "name": "Music", "keywords": [ "Classical Oboe", "Piano", "California Philharmonic" ] }, { "name": "Technology", "keywords": [ "Automation", "Programmer Dvorak", "Self-hosting" ] } ], "meta": { "canonical": "https://adairkelley.com/resume.json", "version": "v1.0.0", "lastModified": "2026-03-26" } }