Adam Dunstan

About Adam Dunstan

I have an uncommon combination of experienced large-scale platform engineer and technology executive. My focus is building large-scale systems and platforms, and the products that are used to create them, first in Australia and for more that 20 years Internationally with enterprises, government and service providers. It’s involved developing and inventing technology, some of it patented, and participating in industry collaboration. Stanford Graduate School unlocked the desire to understand the overall business of technology, not just the engineering, expanding my horizons and resulting in being a founder & CEO. I can design systems, write code, create and manage engineering and product teams, manage large budgets, read a balance sheet, negotiate contracts from both sides of the table, run marketing programs, manage customer issues and relationships. I have served business and technical executive roles. Great teams, not individuals, create successful results and I owe my success to those whom I collaborated. Great teams start with putting people first. A significant number of my teams members have been Engineers. Great Engineers are artists who are able to see beauty in their designs and code, they are smart and often introverted. I invest significant energy in creating an environment and the associated process that respects and supports every team member. Ensuring contributions are appreciated, business goals are measuring and achieved while respectfully implementing performance management is an area where I have achieved remarkable success. Combining attention to detail and going one layer deeper have driven the outsized results produced by my teams without creating unmanageable workloads. Rarely outcome of strategic planning, I consider subtraction as an equally valuable strategy to addition. Balancing subtraction with addition has created the space for my teams to go deeper with attention to details — a technique I have employed with significant success. I am always interested in learning about new technologies and in investigating new opportunities. You can learn more about me at

Experience

1. Co-founder

   Acnodal, Inc

   Apr 2020 — Present · US