# Adam Hofmann > Building Cursor Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/adamhofmann ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Cursor Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States Bringing cutting edge AI tools to enterprises and developers. Supermaven (April 2024-October 2024) was acquired by Cursor in October 2024. ### Sr. Software Consultant & Project Lead @ Hypotenuse Labs Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada Client A: Architected and led development for a counterfeit detection and takedown automation system focused on resale clothing marketplaces utilizing OpenGPT3 and Google Vision AutoML. Managed client relations and expectations for the project team of 2-3 full time developers, consistently delivering quality software that innovates on the requests and ideas of the client. Client B: Architected and developed the MVP for a SEC compliant securities offering and resale marketplace, using Docker, Flask, TypeScript, React and Figma for full stack development. Created a GitHub Actions pipeline for automatic linting, testing and deployment to Digital Ocean. Client C: Led development of the initial library of Data Agent Tools, a collection of extensions allowing LLMs like ChatGPT to intelligently call APIs like Gmail or GCal, reading and writing data. Improved abstractions for the tools and supported the launch with documentation and a blog post. ### Software Engineer @ Scribd Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Designed and developed a multi-factor authentication flow for account verification on a tight 6 week compliance schedule, creating necessary database and backend changes to support enhanced account security. Ruby development to create integrations that improve monolith production deployments from a highly manual twice per day process to a frequent, highly automated process. Integrations worked as part of the GitLab CI/CD pipelines with a variety of third party services to ensure high confidence in the code being deployed, and minimal work for developers. Examples of integrations into the automatic deployment process include Sentry, RainforestQA, TestRail and Slack. Migrated GitLab self hosted CI/CD system to a combination of GitHub Actions and Jenkins, improving the runtime of the CI system through software optimizations, despite the hardware being migrated to being less powerful. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Scribd Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 Ruby on Rails development to improve the core product and it’s supporting services. Migrating the current end to end testing pipeline to be developer friendly and integrate with the Kubernetes, Docker and Go based remote development environment. ### Software Intern (Cloud + AI Security) @ Microsoft Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area Created a robust password expiry manager to automatically renew and propagate service account credentials, eliminating the chance of critical errors involved in the process. Re-designed and re-implemented the authentication process for the service accounts in a critical security service, allowing for more robust authentication and easier incident management ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of Waterloo Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 Researching bypassing controls of watermarked neural networks. ### Trust RnD Intern @ Shopify Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Ottawa, Canada Area Researched differential privacy, preparing reference implementations for experimentation and consideration as a privacy preserving mechanism for sensitive data. Implemented a server-side request blocker, blocking all requests which may potentially leak personally identifiable information outside of allowed regions. Designed and implemented a system in Ruby on Rails for live reporting of critical events found by the malware detection tool, owning the live reports integration into the support teams workflow. ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of Waterloo Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Waterloo Researching query optimization for a main memory database ### Security DevOps Intern @ Shopify Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Ottawa, Canada Area Created a multithreaded Ruby on Rails malware detection tool, using FireFox and Selenium Webdriver, which performed custom dynamic and static analysis, per change, on all Shopify stores, providing data insights through cataloging and fingerprinting the assets of Shopify stores, as well as recording JavaScript events and network traffic. Participated on the Security Incident Response Team to identify, trace and disable cryptocurrency mining scripts and other malicious scripts found on Shopify Stores. ### Software Developer @ PlayStation Network Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Waterloo, Ontario Developed features and improvements in an agile environment for the PlayStation Vue cable replacement service’s store by utilizing JavaScript, Ember.js, Handlebars and CSS. Implemented notifications for unsupported browsers or systems, substantially reworked the XHR and fetch requests to the back-end and improved error reporting. Automated Selenium tests and unit tests alongside any substantial features or bug fixes that I implemented ensuring quality and protection against regression. Learned from many experienced mentors through a extremely rigorous code review process, utilizing the opportunity to gain as much feedback possible. ### Teaching Assistant @ University of Waterloo Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science University of Waterloo ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adam-hofmann-507b20113 --- Source: https://flows.cv/adamhofmann JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/adamhofmann/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11