Adam Welc currently works at Uber Technologies. Previously, he worked at Huawei, focusing on optimizing Java for execution in the cloud. Adam has also worked as a researcher at Intel, Adobe, and Oracle, developing new language implementations as well as novel approaches for concurrent programming. His research interests are in the area of programming languages implementation, design, and tooling, with specific interests in runtime systems, interpreters and compilers, as well as performance analysis and optimization. Adam holds a PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University.