Adam D'Angelo

Current

• Founder at Quora

Past

• VP Engineering & CTO at Facebook
• engineering, optimization, scalability, architecture, ad systems, news feed, management, recruiting at Facebook

Education

• California Institute of Technology
• Phillips Exeter Academy

Connections

254 connections

Industry

Internet

Adam D'Angelo’s Summary

I am interested in social networks, viral engineering, development methodology, web applications, platforms, collaborative filtering, reputation systems, data mining, machine vision, computational trust, online markets, and privacy.

Adam D'Angelo’s Specialties:

algorithms, machine learning, distributed systems, optimization, scalability, decentralized networks, programming languages

Adam D'Angelo’s Experience

• Founder

  Quora

  (Internet industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

• VP Engineering & CTO

  Facebook

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  November 2006 — June 2008 (1 year 8 months)

• engineering, optimization, scalability, architecture, ad systems, news feed, management, recruiting

  Facebook

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  June 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 7 months)

Adam D'Angelo’s Education

• California Institute of Technology

  BS , Computer Science , 2002 — 2006

  4.0 GPA, full merit scholarship

  Activities and Societies:

  ACM Programming Contest Team, Topcoder, Teaching Assistant for Algorithms

• Phillips Exeter Academy

  2000 — 2002

Additional Information

Adam D'Angelo’s Groups:

•    Caltech Alumni Association

Adam D'Angelo’s Honors:

Finalist, Topcoder Collegiate Challenge, 2005
2nd in North America (team of 3), ACM International Computer Programming Contest, 2004
1st in North America (team of 3), ACM International Computer Programming Contest, 2003
Silver Medal, International Olympiad in Informatics, 2002

Adam D'Angelo’s Contact Settings

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