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Adam Azzam is a Member of Product Staff at Modal, a high-performance AI infrastructure platform. Before Modal, Adam was VP of Product at Prefect and maintainer of Prefect and FastMCP. He holds a PhD in mathematics.
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Adam Azzam (PhD Mathematics, UCLA; now at Modal after several years as VP of Product at Prefect) brings hands-on experience with AI/agent orchestration infrastructure. At Prefect he worked on FastMCP and championed the SEP-1686 MCP tasks spec — writing a detailed protocol-level breakdown of its task lifecycle and presenting it publicly. His writing and talks combine technical depth on how agent infrastructure behaves in production with clear, grounded explanations that make the ideas accessible.
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@aaazzamRecent writing (3)
- Call Now, Fetch Later: MCP SEP-1686 · blog · Nov 2025
- Code Mode Isn't a Critique of MCP · blog · Oct 2025
- The apology of MCP · blog · Oct 2025
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- FastMCP with Adam Azzam and Jeremiah Lowin · Software Engineering Daily · Apr 2026