Adam Smith
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarAdam Smith is a serial founder, operator, investor and board director in San Francisco who builds developer-focused and productivity software from prototype to scale. He founded Kite, one of the earliest AI coding assistants that raised over $20M, reached 500,000 monthly active developers and was acquired by Affirm, where he later served as VP of Engineering helping scale teams and onboarding during hypergrowth. Earlier he founded Xobni, whose sophisticated Outlook add-in amassed millions of users and continues to power Yahoo experiences post-acquisition. Since 2008 he’s been an active seed investor and currently serves on the board of Rescale, combining hands-on engineering depth with strategic company-building. He holds a BS in Computer Science from MIT and is known for having been "too early" with products that ultimately shaped their markets.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (59)
jedi10
autocomplete10
kite10
player10
atom-plugin10
python9
vscode-extension9
zeplin9
anaconda9
vscode9
sketchup9
pyqt59
pylint8
pyqt8
spyder8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kiteco/kiteco-public
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
Primary Kite repo — private bits replaced with XXXXXXX
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 9 pushes in 11 months
bitskite
adamsmith/game-theory-poker
Jan 2013 - Nov 2020
A game-theoretic poker player (written in 2005)
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 7 years 10 months
gameplayer
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