Adi S.
building
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Building
2024 - Current
Building and conjuring up value from scratch is mucho hard but mucho fun
Engineer
2022 - 2024
Disbursements: Built systems and wrote a lot of code that moves hundreds of millions of dollars (billions some days … literally) very efficiently every day
Affirm is a financial technology services company that offers installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.
Raised $2,020,000,000.00 from PGIM Fixed Income.
Creator
2022 - 2023
Ideated, started and helped scale the engine that is Socratica. Branding, sponsorship, recruiting, community building etc.
Fellow
2020 - 2023
Part of the Home(work) Build Sprint + Talent Fellow. Incubated a few ideas
Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm. We back a small number of exceptional people and the companies they build.
Software Engineer
2021 - 2022
Worked on a lot of ecommerce software. Helped standup livestream shopping on mobile + web. Lots of fun had
Tophatter is revolutionizing the e-commerce landscape with a discovery shopping app that’s truly one-of-a-kind.
Raised $21,000,000.00 from Armentum Partners.
Engineering Lead
2020 - 2022
Employee #1. Wrote a lot of code, built and managed an engineering team of 5, drove roadmap and did many other things
Machine Learning Researcher
2019 - 2020
Built a self-driving coffee delivery robot on a segway. Created fake influencers on Instagram using GANs + encoders
Machine Learning Engineer
2018 - 2019
Made data pipelines for ML models (before it was cool) for geospatial oil rigging go super fast. Built out some ML models. Lots of data engineering
IBM is an IT technology and consulting firm providing computer hardware, software, infrastructure, and hosting services.
Software Engineer
2017 - 2018
Stood up many internal tools/apps that increased engineering team performance
Researcher
2015 - 2016
Made drugs to decrease risk for heart attacks. Lots of western blots