# Adam Dou

> Engineering at Applied Intuition

Location: Los Altos, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/adamdou

I'm a passionate builder and maker, driven by a desire to create innovative and impactful experiences for users—whether it's something only my kids will enjoy or a product impacting billions. My background spans over two decades of leading engineering teams to build scalable and maintainable software solutions, from initial concept to successful launch. Whether I'm crafting educational software with the help of the latest AI, designing and 3D printing a new gadget, or diving into the world of game development, I'm always looking for new ways to bring ideas to life. I thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy mentoring other engineers. Connect with me to chat about building amazing things!

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Applied Intuition
Jan 2025 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Arta Finance
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California, United States
Initiated and lead FE improvements (Flutter): introduced new dependency injection system, storybook driven component development systems, CMS integration for content management, and general refactoring efforts to improve development productivity through component reuse.

Developed and launched several features: Family office service brochures, 3P integrations with Calendly, Asset reallocation, Billing/invoice generation.

### Staff Software Engineer @ YouTube
Jan 2015 – Jan 2023 | San Bruno, California, United States
Tech lead for Live streaming: 3P tools, web frontend (stream creation/management) and serving stack, monetization (former)

Key Responsibilities:
- Lead design and review for all aspects of technical system, including: app architecture, storage, logging, metrics, reliability.
- Collaborate x-functionally to develop and execute on product and technical roadmaps.

Impact:
- Contributed to ~25x growth for streams and channels, ~12x growth in watch time and viewers.
- Contributed to revenue growth over 20x

Successfully designed and launched products and features including:
- Live Control Room - new desktop tools for creating / managing live streams.
- Various cross-team efforts to bring memberships, shopping, captions features to Live
- Browser based webcam streaming.
- Infrastructure to enable mobile streaming.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, California, United States
Transfered to YouTube in 2015

Software / Senior Software Engineer (2012Q4 - 2015Q1)
Tech lead for building "Ok Google" hot word integration on Chrome.
Tech lead for linking web search and phone actions
Implemented Ad formats for lower tier mobile devices
Launched search onebox features: Sunrise, When is (event start/end times), Localtime.

### Student Researcher @ University of California, Riverside
Jan 2006 – Jan 2011
Doing research in the Distributed and Real-time Systems Lab

- Mobile MapReduce framework

- Efficient indexing systems in flash equipped sensor devices
- Quality of service for IO in flash equipped sensor devices
- NesC running on TinyOS (TOSSIM), C application on cc1010 sensor and AVR Microcontroller.

- Peer-to-peer, precision based caching for dynamic data streams
- Java application deployed over Local network and over PlanetLab

### Research Intern @ Nokia
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008
Exploring distributed computing on mobile devices (e.g. Nokia N95)

### Programmer Analyst @ Telus Mobility
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adamdou

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Last updated: 2026-04-11