About

I’m Adam Keys

👋🏻 I build stuff! Leader, writer, developer.

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Blog / Newsletter / Mastodon / Twitter / GitHub / LinkedIn

💪🏻 What I Do

Mission: support great teams that build great software.

  • 🌲Grow teams: find the right people for the team, help them organize the work, stay out of the way when the team is executing smoothly.
  • 📈Create product: collaborate with product and design folks to define a great solution to customer problems, work with teams to iterate upon features that implement that solution
  • 🏋🏻Coach developers: facilitate social growth, pair program to develop design and development skill
  • 🚀Build software: build the features, write the tests, ship the code, flip the feature flags, troubleshoot the bugs, fix the data, make it fast/scale, update the legacy code

📚 Recently

  • Workleap: lead a backend/Rails team through a major upgrade/version migration, started project to integrate Pingboard product into Workleap platform.
  • Pingboard: lead/grow/coach a cross-functional team to deliver new product features, build new integrations, support existing code, and respond to operational issues.
  • ShippingEasy: built new integrations and inventory management features.

Previously: LivingSocial, Gowalla, FiveRuns, PureDiscovery, Tyler Technologies.

🤝🏻 Let’s work together

Currently: I’m an “indie dev/blogger” seeking part-time contract/consulting work. Let’s collaborate on growing your team or building your product.

I’m also seeking a long-term/full-time position coaching, leading, and building with a team of software developers. If you’re looking for that kind of person, get in touch!

📮🗓️ Contact

If chatting face-to-face is more your thing, grab a time during my Office Hours and let’s talk!

If text/email is more your thing, fill out the form and send me a message.

Adam Keys @therealadam