Keith Adams is a Managing Partner and co-founder of Pebblebed, and one of the most decorated systems engineers of his generation. He built foundational technology at the largest scale in the world — and then did it again, in a completely different domain.

Keith founded Facebook AI Research (FAIR), which became one of the most influential AI research labs on the planet, producing work that shaped the entire field. He subsequently served as Chief Architect at Slack, where he was the principal technical mind behind one of the fastest-scaling business platforms ever built.

His command of distributed systems, compilers, virtual machines, and programming language theory is legendary among engineers who have worked with him. He approaches every problem from first principles and won't ship an abstraction until it's exactly right.

At Pebblebed, Keith partners with founders tackling foundational technical problems — the kind where the depth of the challenge is the whole point.