Adam Feuer
Engineering Manager, Grameen Foundation

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Adam Feuer leads the software development team at Grameen Foundation’s Mifos Initiative. He founded the network scalability solution provider F5 Networks, the internet service provider IXA (now part of Savvis Networks), and helped launch Amazon’s grocery delivery business Amazon Fresh. He specializes in mission-critical business applications built using open source software and Agile methodologies.

His passion is creating great teams to solve difficult problems.

Sessions

11:00am Friday, 07/23/2010
Ending Poverty With Software: Using Globally Distributed Teams to Tackle Difficult Problems
Tools & Techniques
 Location: Portland 252
Tags: java, open_source, agile, distributed_team, poverty
Adam Feuer (Grameen Foundation), Adam Monsen (Grameen Foundation USA), Van Mittal-Henkle (Grameen Foundation)
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Open source software is a key ingredient in solving some of the worlds' most difficult problems. This is particularly true with the problem of poverty. Join us to dive into the problem of poverty, find out why it demands both open source software and Agile methods, and explore lessons learned from an existing project in this area, the Grameen Foundation's Mifos Initiative. Read more.
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