# Kienan Adams

> Software Engineer at Cortex

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kienan

I’m a curious, detail-oriented engineer interested in software systems and their care, maintenance, and standardization. I’ve most recently been interested in topics such as observability, code quality, and team execution. Along the way, I’ve been particularly passionate about establishing fair processes and building high-performing, inclusive teams.

## Work Experience
### Lead Software Engineer @ Cortex
Jan 2023 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Front
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
Senior member of the Deliverability team, responsible for the business-critical message syncing services at Front. Worked to ensure all messages (emails, SMS, tweets, etc.) were both ingested into and sent from the Front app in a timely and reliable manner.

### Software Engineer @ Lob
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, CA
Core member of the Postmasters team, worked to build and maintain Lob's Print & Mail pipeline, and developed with Go, Node, Postgres, Terraform, and more.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Lob
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
- Added custom signatures functionality to the existing checks offering, improving the product’s security and adoptability for new enterprise customers
- Developed a Logstash plugin and configurations to ingest millions of USPS records into Elasticsearch for querying in an upcoming address verification API
- Took ownership of a CLI which queried across Postgres and Elasticsearch to provide the operations team with a formalized workflow to measure USPS deliverability and tracking statistics

### Research Assistant @ University of Virginia
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
- Implemented a security network with Arduino’s, Raspberry Pi’s, and various sensors connected to a central Django app which listed recent sensor detections and displayed them using the Google Maps API
- Built a separate system called the “Sentinel” which implemented voting on sensor data sent over RabbitMQ and monitored the status of the security network to identify possible cyber attacks

### Software Engineering Intern @ Cardinal Solutions
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
- Developed an iPad app with a Windows Azure backend for the sales team to track client relationships
- Developed a sales leaderboard web app using Angular, hosted in Microsoft Sharepoint
- Learned agile methodology and the entire software development lifecycle -- worked with the client to set requirements, incorporated a designer’s plans, had daily stand-ups and weekly sprint reviews, performed maintenance after user testing, etc.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in BA Computer Science, BA Political and Social Thought
University of Virginia
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### High School
St. Xavier High School
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/keenadams
- Website: https://kienanadams.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-20