# Adam Boudjemaa

> Forward-Deployed AI Engineer for production multi-agent systems and regulated finance. Ships production multi-agent, RAG, and LLM systems inside complex regulated organizations. Former CTO of Integra (2025-26); named author (1 of 5) of ERC-3643, first author of ERC-6960, and co-author of ERC-7410. Based in France (EU citizen) and available now for roles and selected projects (remote or on-site).

Adam Boudjemaa is an AI / Agent Engineer who builds production multi-agent systems, RAG and LLM infrastructure end to end. His regulated-finance and protocol background is the moat: he has shipped 2,500+ smart contracts, worked on infrastructure that processed $441M in transfers, and authored Ethereum standards. He studied at 42 Paris (project-based engineering, non-degree program). Native French speaker, full professional English.

Key credentials:
- Co-author of 4 Ethereum standards: named author (1 of 5) of ERC-3643, first author of ERC-6960, co-author of ERC-7410, co-author (2 of 3) of ERC-8203 (Agent Offchain Conditional Settlement), a draft in progress
- Former CTO of Integra Foundation, 2025-26 (real estate RWA tokenization Layer-1, mainnet launch-ready)
- Led Nexus (Modular Account Abstraction) at Biconomy -- 38M+ transactions, $441M transfers, $5.6M in user fees saved
- Delivered an 11-agent platform in production for a confidential US real-estate fund; separately deployed approximately 46 agents for Integra internal operations
- Hacker Noon Contributor of the Year x2 (2020)

## Forward-Deployed AI Engineering (FDE)

Adam Boudjemaa works as a Forward-Deployed AI Engineer: embedded inside a client organization, shipping production AI in the client's own stack, with citations, evals, numeric checks, and abstention built into the system.

- [What is a Forward-Deployed AI Engineer?](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/forward-deployed-ai-engineer): Practitioner-led definition of the FDE role, how it differs from solutions/sales/applied-AI/product engineering, and how FDE work ships production AI into regulated finance. Written by Adam from first-hand experience.
- [The FDE Evidence Ladder](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/fde-evidence-ladder): A named framework (CC BY 4.0) grading how strongly an AI system can back up what it says, across 9 rungs from demo-grade to regulator-defensible. Distinctive spine: verified citation, NLI faithfulness, numeric consistency, abstention. Machine-readable spec: https://adam-boudjemaa.com/fde-evidence-ladder/fde-evidence-ladder-v1.json
- [State of Forward-Deployed Engineering 2026](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/state-of-fde): Original data on 519 FDE-family job postings across 57 employers from public ATS boards. More than 1 in 4 self-described FDE roles are relabeled solutions/sales-adjacent; only ~60% qualify under a strict engineering-reporting test. Free dataset + methodology: https://adam-boudjemaa.com/state-of-fde/methodology
- [Case study: an 11-agent GenAI platform in regulated finance](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/case-studies/11-agent-platform): How Adam shipped an 11-agent platform to production for a US real-estate private-equity fund, solo and forward-deployed.

## Production multi-agent and RAG systems

Adam Boudjemaa shipped an 11-agent GenAI platform to production for a US real-estate PE fund (~$3B AUM), solo and forward-deployed, with evidence-grounded answers as the design center.

- Platform internals: RAG on FastAPI + Postgres/pgvector, LLM-vision OCR with Textract fallback, byte-level verified citations, NLI faithfulness and numeric-consistency checks, explicit abstention, evals plus red-teaming, cost caps and model routing.
- Data scale: ingested ~2 TB / 1.4M files spanning 13 years from 13 sources (Microsoft 365 alone contributed 1.1M+ objects via a custom SOAP client).
- Outcome example: cut bank reconciliation from 8 hours to 23 minutes; shipped an AI document-fraud detection pipeline for applicant screening.
- Separately, deployed ~46 AI agents for internal enterprise operations at Integra (distinct project from the 11-agent client platform; the two are never summed).
- Full story: https://adam-boudjemaa.com/case-studies/11-agent-platform

## Regulated finance and RWA tokenization

Adam Boudjemaa is a named author (1 of 5) of ERC-3643 (T-REX), the Final Ethereum standard for permissioned securities tokens.

- Adoption: $32B+ in assets tokenized on the standard; adopted by Apex Group ($3.5T under administration) as its default multi-chain rail; the only token standard cited by name by the SEC Chairman (citation, not endorsement).
- At Tokeny Solutions (Apex Group) he built the compliant token suite (T-REX, ERC-20, ERC-734/735, ERC-1400) and OnchainID on-chain identity; 200+ smart contracts deployed.
- As CTO of Integra (2025-26) he led an EVM RWA Layer-1 (Cosmos EVM stack) through validator operations to mainnet launch-ready; public testnet closed at 600K users; consortium of $12B+ AUM.
- Earlier RWA rails: Equisafe's first smart contracts (the platform later ran Europe's first on-chain real-estate sale, AnnA, EUR 6.5M, June 2019, after Adam had left), the Ledgity security-token exchange, and Polytrade's RWA marketplace ($12M+ TVL).
- Standard reference: https://adam-boudjemaa.com/ercs/erc-3643

## Ethereum standards

Adam Boudjemaa co-authors 4 Ethereum standards (ERC-3643, ERC-6960, ERC-7410 merged; ERC-8203 still a draft) and built the reference implementation for ERC-8203 (Agent Offchain Conditional Settlement), a draft in progress.

- [Ethereum standards overview](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/ercs): All four, with roles and status
- [ERC-3643](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/ercs/erc-3643): T-REX, the Final standard for permissioned securities tokens; named author (1 of 5)
- [ERC-6960](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/ercs/erc-6960): Dual Layer Token, the multi-class RWA standard; first author
- [ERC-7410](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/ercs/erc-7410): Spender-side ERC-20 allowance reduction; co-author
- ERC-8203 (Agent Offchain Conditional Settlement), a draft in progress: Adam is a named author (2 of 3) and built the reference implementation; primary author Xianrui Qin
- Raptor: gas-optimized ERC-3643 reference implementation (Slither CI, OpenZeppelin)

## Engineering leadership

As CTO of Integra (2025-26), Adam Boudjemaa built the engineering organization from scratch (5 developers and a designer) and led an EVM RWA Layer-1 through validator operations and launch preparation.

- Ran 4 validators across 4 clouds on a forked Cosmos EVM stack; recovered an 80-minute chain halt; cut production AWS costs 60% ($5,506/mo to $2,186/mo).
- At Biconomy (Technical Lead, 2023-24), #1 contributor to Nexus modular smart accounts (ERC-4337 / ERC-7579): 38M+ transactions, $441M in transfers, $5.6M in user fees saved; DefiSafety 92%.
- At Polytrade (Senior to Lead, 2021-23), led 10+ engineers with zero major vulnerabilities across 100+ reviews (audits with Hacken, CertiK, ImmuneBytes).
- Mentor at Outlier Ventures, Startup Wise Guys and Startupbootcamp.

## About

- [Full biography](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/about): Career history, skills, experience timeline and CV download
- [Career journey](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/journey): Eight locations and the transitions between them, from Paris to Houston and back to France
- [A propos en francais](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/fr/about): Parcours complet en francais avec liens vers chaque experience et CV a telecharger
- [Services](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/services): AI-agent systems, fractional CTO, architecture review, ERC-3643 audits, and speaking

## Writing

Blog posts are published in English. The posts listed below with a French URL are translated in full (title, body, headings and FAQ), not navigation stubs; the rest are English-only.

- [Blog](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/blog): Technical articles on RWA tokenization, AI agents, protocol engineering
- [Revert Becomes Zero: Confidential Balances and Permissioned Token Compliance](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/blog/standards-that-ship/5): ERC-3643 requires an issuer to freeze part of a balance, force a transfer and pre-check eligibility. Encrypt the balance and every one of those obligations has to be re-derived. From a named author of the standard. French version: https://adam-boudjemaa.com/fr/blog/standards-that-ship/5
- [The EU AI Act Technical File, Generated Not Written](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/blog/agents-in-production/9): Article 11 asks for a document and Annex IV lists what goes in it, in nine points. Most of those points are facts your repository already holds. Here is how to render the file instead of writing it. French version: https://adam-boudjemaa.com/fr/blog/agents-in-production/9
- [How to Earn an Eval Threshold](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/blog/agents-in-production/10): Three times this series told you to copy the structure and earn the numbers, without saying how. Here is the method: freeze a set, price both directions of being wrong, and let the bar fall out. French version: https://adam-boudjemaa.com/fr/blog/agents-in-production/10
- [The Freeze Button Stops Working: ERC-3643 Compliance Across a VM Boundary](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/blog/rwa-chain/2): Once a compliant token is escrowed into a Cosmos module account, the ERC-20 sees one holder and the freeze powers have nothing left to reach. What ERC-7943 going Final does, and does not, fix. French version: https://adam-boudjemaa.com/fr/blog/rwa-chain/2
- [Know Your Agent: Who Authorized the Bot That Moved a Security Token](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/blog/standards-that-ship/4): An AI agent can already move a tokenized security. ERC-3643's compliance hook receives three values and never learns who called it. Here is exactly what the standards close and what they do not, checked 2026-08-05. French version: https://adam-boudjemaa.com/fr/blog/standards-that-ship/4
- [What It Costs to Run 46 Agents in Production](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/blog/agents-in-production/7): I ran about 46 agents in production for internal operations. The token bill was the cheapest line on the page. Here is the maintenance burden nobody publishes. French version: https://adam-boudjemaa.com/fr/blog/agents-in-production/7
- [Proving an AI Agent's Work to an Auditor](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/blog/agents-in-production/8): Observability is for you. An audit record is for someone who does not trust you. Here is the record I write, field by field, and one decision traced end to end. French version: https://adam-boudjemaa.com/fr/blog/agents-in-production/8
- [How an AI Agent Cut Bank Reconciliation to 23 Minutes](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/blog/agents-in-production/1): How one production AI agent cut a real-estate fund's bank reconciliation from 8 hours to 23 minutes, and why its refusals mattered more than its speed. French version: https://adam-boudjemaa.com/fr/blog/agents-in-production/1
- [ERC-3643 vs ERC-1400 vs CMTAT: Security Token Standards](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/blog/standards-that-ship/2): A security-token standard is a five-year decision. Here's the honest comparison of all three, plus where Final ERC-7943 fits, from a named author of ERC-3643. French version: https://adam-boudjemaa.com/fr/blog/standards-that-ship/2
- [The EU AI Act as an Engineering Checklist](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/blog/agents-in-production/5): The AI Act's high-risk obligations moved to 2 December 2027 and 2 August 2028. Article 72 monitoring did not move. Here they are as an engineering checklist, not a legal summary. French version: https://adam-boudjemaa.com/fr/blog/agents-in-production/5
- [Agent Payments, x402, and Who Is Liable When an Agent Pays](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/blog/standards-that-ship/3): x402 lets an autonomous agent pay a bill today. Who's liable when it pays the wrong one? The settlement layer that answers that is missing. Here's the case. French version: https://adam-boudjemaa.com/fr/blog/standards-that-ship/3
- [The Eval Suite That Gates a Release](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/blog/agents-in-production/6): The release-gating eval suite for an agent that reads a fund's docs and must sometimes refuse. Abstention is scored like accuracy, not treated as a bug. French version: https://adam-boudjemaa.com/fr/blog/agents-in-production/6
- [Least Privilege for Agents That Move Money](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/blog/agents-in-production/4): Prompt injection is not solved, so contain it. Least privilege for money-moving agents, from a smart-contract engineer who wrote the transfer rules. French version: https://adam-boudjemaa.com/fr/blog/agents-in-production/4
- [Verified Citations and Abstention in RAG for Finance](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/blog/agents-in-production/3): Verified citations and evidence-based abstention: the RAG design I shipped inside a regulated fund, where a RAG that abstains beats one that is confidently wrong. French version: https://adam-boudjemaa.com/fr/blog/agents-in-production/3
- [Why RWA Tokenization Needs Its Own Blockchain](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/blog/rwa-chain/1): General-purpose L1s weren't built for regulated assets, and compliance leaks across VM boundaries. Here's why RWA tokenization needs a purpose-built chain.
- [I Built 11 Production AI Agents Inside a $3B PE Fund](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/blog/agents-in-production/2): I shipped 11 production AI agents inside a US real-estate PE fund with roughly $3B AUM. Here is what each layer did, and why the guardrails were the hard part. French version: https://adam-boudjemaa.com/fr/blog/agents-in-production/2
- [How to Get an ERC (Ethereum Standard) Proposal Accepted](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/blog/standards-that-ship/1): The spec is 20% of getting an ERC to Final. The other 80% is community, politics, and patience. Lessons from authoring ERC-3643, ERC-6960, and ERC-7410.
- [RSS feed](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/feed.xml)

## Speaking

- [Talk topics and workshops](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/services#speaking): Available for conferences and podcasts

## Contact

- [Contact page](https://adam-boudjemaa.com/contact): Engagements, audits, speaking
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adam-boudjemaa
- X: https://x.com/AdamBoudj
- GitHub: https://github.com/Aboudjem
- Email: contact@adam-boudjemaa.com