# Omar McAdam
Founder | Founding Engineer | Open Source and Healthtech Builder

- Website: https://mcadam.io
- GitHub: https://github.com/OmarMcadam
- X: https://x.com/OmarMcAdam
- Email: omar@mcadam.io

Note: some older public references may appear under the name Omayr McAdam.

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## Professional Profile

Omar McAdam is a founder, engineer, and product leader with 25+ years of experience spanning infrastructure, compliance, product management, open source, and AI-native health systems. His work combines deep technical execution with zero-to-one product leadership across healthcare, developer tools, collaboration software, and enterprise systems.

He has started multiple businesses, built and exited one company, led high-growth product and engineering teams, and developed open-source products adopted by founders, developers, and companies across the modern software ecosystem. Recent work includes Legion Health, Unproprietary Corporation, UnInbox, and early-stage health and AI platforms.

His profile is distinguished by original product creation, recognized open-source contributions, published media coverage, invited judging roles, and a consistent record of building mission-critical systems from concept to scale.

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## Selected Achievements

- Architected and launched the new patient portal at Legion Health, increasing conversion by 70%.
- Improved Legion Health onboarding systems, reducing intake appointment cancellations by 30%.
- Helped drive the move to Legion AI and the systems behind AI-assisted prescription facilitation tied to Utah expansion and regulatory approval.
- Created UnInbox, an open-source email framework and platform that grew to 5,000+ users and ranked in the top 0.03% of GitHub repositories.
- Led UnInbox through concept, development, launch, and growth while managing a 5-person team and building an active OSS community around the product.
- Launched UnInbox as Product Hunt's #1 Product of the Day and a top-5 product of the week.
- Built and now lead the Open Source Founder community with 600+ members, including founders and operators from leading open-source companies.
- Created a simpler framework for application encryption that reduced prior implementation overhead by 80%.
- Served as an early contributor and open-source advisor to Openwork AI, helping shape product and community direction as it grew to 225,120 installs and approximately 15,000 active users before becoming a Y Combinator company.
- Contributed specialist work to major repositories including Documenso, Cap, and Infisical across security hardening, infrastructure scale, and enterprise encryption readiness.
- Built and exited NGOSaaS, a SaaS platform for NGO campaign and donation management.
- Led roadmap, process, and team scaling at ClickUp, including 100+ planned features, 700+ bugs resolved, and live user sessions reaching 40,000+ attendees.

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## Public Recognition

- Mentioned in press related to AI-native healthcare and Legion Health, including New York Post coverage of AI-assisted psychiatric prescriptions: https://nypost.com/2026/03/27/business/artificial-intelligence-can-now-prescribe-mental-health-drugs/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost
- Profiled in Healthcare AI Guy coverage of Legion Health as part of the team building the future of AI-powered psychiatry: https://www.healthcareaiguy.com/p/company-deep-dive-legion-health
- Invited to judge two hackathons in the modern web and AI ecosystem.
- Built public open-source work that has attracted contributors, developer adoption, and founder attention across GitHub and startup communities.

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## Open Source and Community Leadership

- Founder of the Open Source Founder community, a 600+ member network focused on commercialization, community building, founder education, and operating open-source companies.
- Creator of UnInbox: https://github.com/un/inbox
- Creator of UnWebhook: https://github.com/un/webhook
- Regularly publish technical breakdowns, OSS code, and product notes through public channels and developer communities.
- Advise founders and startups on email systems, OSS strategy, AI tooling, and product architecture.

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## Professional Experience

### Founder and Chief Meme Officer | Unproprietary Corporation
Feb 2024-Present

Open-source product studio and umbrella for AI, health, developer tooling, and founder community work.

- Created and now lead the Open Source Founder community with 600+ members.
- Built products and experiments across health, AI, and developer tooling, including Potential Health / AugmentedHQ and a simplified encryption framework.
- Advise startups and founders on open-source commercialization, email infrastructure, AI systems, and product strategy.

### Founding Engineer | Legion Health
Jun 2025-Jan 2026

Built clinical and operational systems for an AI-native telepsychiatry company using LLMs and workflow automation to improve access, efficiency, and patient experience.

- Architected and launched the new patient portal, increasing conversions by 70%.
- Optimized onboarding and intake workflows, reducing appointment cancellations by 30%.
- Helped lead the move to Legion AI and the product systems that supported Utah expansion and AI prescription facilitation.

### Founding Engineer | Stealth: Health x AI
Mar 2025-Jul 2025

Founding product engineer for a personalized health system spanning AI, backend systems, web product, and mobile.

- Led full system design and implementation of the MVP for a B2C and B2E personalized health platform.
- Owned architecture and end-to-end delivery across core product surfaces.

### Founding Product Engineer | UnInbox
Oct 2023-Nov 2024

Built and led development of an open-source email platform that reimagined email as programmable, collaborative infrastructure.

- Architected and built the full email stack and product from scratch.
- Led a 5-person team through concept, development, launch, and user growth.
- Grew the product to 5,000+ users and an active open-source contributor base.

### Product Manager and Team Lead | ClickUp
Mar 2021-Apr 2022

Led product development and engineering teams focused on core platform features during a period of rapid company scale.

- Built and prioritized a roadmap of 100+ features through user interviews and platform analysis.
- Helped resolve 700+ bugs and platform stability issues.
- Created development processes that scaled with the company from 50 to 500 people.
- Worked directly with users through live sessions reaching 40,000+ attendees.
- Grew teams from 4 to 15 people while maintaining regular product delivery.

### Lead Product Manager - B2B SaaS/PaaS | FO HQ Streaming Ltd
Jul 2020-Feb 2021

Built and launched a streaming platform from scratch, combining hardware and software for business users.

- Created a streaming hardware kit at 10% of market cost, driving a 75% increase in adoption.
- Scaled the platform to 10,000+ weekly streaming minutes across 150+ business users.
- Led remote product and engineering teams to ship 30+ core features.

### Product Manager - Internal Tools | Essentis HRI
2018-2019

Led internal tools and workflow automation initiatives.

- Increased new user signup by 145% and reduced onboarding drop-off by 240%.
- Built workflow automation tools that improved process efficiency by 200x.
- Hired and led a remote engineering team across three time zones, shipping 50+ features.

### Product Manager - B2C Hardware | WBS Training AG
2018

Led development of integrated hardware and software training systems from concept to production.

- Took a new training system from board approval through to manufactured product.
- Built working prototypes with users, software teams, and manufacturers.
- Managed the full product cycle from research and specification through prototype and manufacturing handoff.

### Co-Founder - B2B Service | C.Network
2016-2017

Led a tech startup from concept through MVP and strategic pivot.

- Built and launched the initial product after identifying the market opportunity through user and competitor analysis.
- Recognized market changes early and successfully pivoted the business model.
- Designed the technical architecture and selected the technology stack for scale.

### Product Manager - B2C Service and Internal Tools | Essentis Biohotel Berlin
2015-2016

Led digital transformation of hotel operations and guest experience.

- Redesigned guest services, improving satisfaction by 45%.
- Built integrated hardware and software systems to digitize the guest journey.
- Created internal tools to streamline hotel operations with the development team.

### Founder | NGOSaaS
2014

Built and successfully exited a SaaS platform for NGO campaign and donation management.

### Datacenter Consultant | Sub contractor
2013

Led design and implementation of a new datacenter facility, including vendor relationships and technical specifications.

### Technical Consultant | Netlogic Consulting Limited
2009

Led large-scale IT infrastructure projects including a 300-seat call center upgrade and implementation of ISO/IEC 20000-aligned service management processes.

### Technology Manager | Westgate Media and Broadcast Limited
2006

Managed IT and video infrastructure for a production environment requiring 24/7 broadcast capability.

### Co-Founder | EGYComp Training Center
2003

Established and ran a Microsoft certification training center, including curriculum development and course delivery.

### IT Support | Netlogic Consulting Limited
2002

Provided network infrastructure support for enterprise clients.

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## Technical Focus

- Product and systems architecture
- TypeScript, React, Next.js, Expo, mobile and web product development
- AI workflows, LLM systems, and automation
- Open-source infrastructure and developer tooling
- Healthcare product systems and patient-facing flows
- Data, integrations, APIs, and operational automation