Adam Callaway Wilson

Owner
August 2017 – Present · Atlanta, GA

Independent technology consultancy focused on data systems, software delivery, and infrastructure for NGOs in global public health and mission-driven small businesses. Operating as the sole technical lead across all engagements — responsible for architecture, implementation, client communication, and ongoing support. Every project taken on has been delivered and put into active use or completed its intended lifecycle.

• Full-cycle delivery ownership across a portfolio of concurrent engagements, from requirements and architecture through deployment and long-term support.
• Imagery library for training and ML model development implemented to support various expert training and model development efforts.
• Program and supply chain data systems for international drug donation programs, including reporting pipelines and submission tracking tools used by global health organizations.
• Trachoma surgery tracking and monitoring system built in CommCare and Metabase, currently in active use across multiple countries.
• Neglected tropical disease data platform on DHIS2, supporting country-wide historic and current data collection and management.
• Geospatial tooling using PostGIS and Mapbox for custom disease monitoring and treatment progress visualizations.
• UI and API modernization for an international strategic business intelligence platform.
• AWS platform and security architecture for multiple web applications, including serverless hosting of open-source global health tooling.
• Offline-capable mobile tools including a maps-based mobile web survey tool and an inventory calculator for medical supply needs in low-resource environments.
• Stakeholder and partner coordination across international NGOs, government health agencies, and in-country implementation teams.

Health Informaticist, GHD ICT Tech Lead
August 2016 – July 2017 · Atlanta, GA

Embedded with RTI's Global Health Division to help define and execute a technology strategy for accelerating public health project delivery. Championed a buy-over-build approach, steering the team toward the emerging ecosystem of purpose-built global health tools — particularly DHIS2 — rather than custom development, reducing cost and time-to-deployment for client programs.

VP Technology, Time Out Labs
April 2014 – July 2016 · Atlanta, GA

Following Time Out's acquisition of HUGECITY, led the technical integration of the HUGECITY platform into Time Out's global product suite as the Time Out World events platform. Served as technical lead for Time Out Labs, the company's internal innovation group, prototyping and evaluating new product directions and technologies.

Co-founder & CTO
April 2011 – April 2014 · Atlanta, GA

Co-founded and served as CTO of HUGECITY, a Facebook events aggregator and recommendation engine used by millions of people worldwide to discover local events. As the technical co-founder alongside Hugh Malkin, designed and built the full platform from the ground up — including a responsive web app, dedicated mobile site, iOS application, embeddable events widget, and a JSON API serving over 18 million events globally.

Software Engineer
December 2006 – April 2011 · Atlanta, GA & Remote

Contracted through Kratos Defense and Security Solutions to design, implement, and support enterprise services and web applications for the CDC's emergency alerting and public health notification infrastructure.

• Designed an inter-state cascade alerting system to replace a fragmented legacy approach, reducing implementation and support costs. The design was adopted as a Public Health Information Network (PHIN) standard.
• Initiated and led a platform modernization from Java 1.4/J2EE/Weblogic 8 to Java 1.6/EJB3/JBoss 5, meaningfully cutting development cycle times and improving software quality.
• Introduced Agile and continuous integration practices using Maven, unit testing, and Hudson CI; helped transition the team to Scrum methodology.
• Owned all integration work for the PHIN Cascade Alerting System, connecting state and local health alerting systems with the CDC's national infrastructure.

Developer
February 2006 – December 2006 · Atlanta, GA

Developed custom web applications across e-commerce and enterprise workflow domains, involved from design through production deployment.

• Led design and implementation of a multi-user, multi-location advertising production and revenue analysis workflow application, including direct client communication throughout the engagement.
• Integrated shipping web services for UPS, FedEx, and the US Postal Service simultaneously within a single project.

Graduate Research Assistant
January 2005 – December 2005 · Atlanta, GA & Mountain View, CA

Developed prototype interface and software for NASA's next-generation component-based mission control platform (Mission Control Technologies), collaborating with experienced Human Interface Engineers at Ames.

• Built a feature-rich prototype in Squeak Smalltalk (Tweak interface) demonstrating an innovative component-based interaction model.
• Prototyped UI concepts that informed the design of the production Java implementation.

Research Assistant
Summer 2002 – 2003 · Atlanta, GA

Developed the student programming environment for Georgia Tech's experimental Introduction to Media Computation course.

• Led a team of 5 undergraduate and graduate students to integrate and deploy all course software across multiple academic institutions.
• Built the course assignment submission system and maintained tooling used by approximately 400 students.