Henele Adams

VP Engineering

Henele joined Synthetic Minds after ten years at Google. His first five years were spent working on core search ranking (impacting most search results), while the last five were in research (working on NLP projects and adding extra smarts to Gboard). In between tours, he was the first engineering hire at Parse (acquired by Facebook, YC S11). Prior to moving out west, he worked at the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute working on projects ranging from landmine clearance training systems to localization systems (non-GPS) for autonomous vehicles. He developed his initial appreciation for good software development practices while working on large autonomous unmanned air vehicles. He remains rather disappointed that code is still mostly made by meat. When not trying to remedy that, he likes taking long walks in the backcountry.