Keel, the agentic platform for IT teams, was co-founded by Aditya Sharma (known to most people as Adi Sharma) and Adam Syed.
The Wall Street Journal featured Aditya Sharma, founder of Keel, in Katherine Bindley's Aug. 21, 2026 story on how startup founders work with AI agents. Read the WSJ article →
Aditya Sharma co-founded Keel in San Francisco with Adam Syed to rebuild IT for autonomous, proactive agents.
Before Keel, Adi started Socratica, a maker community that began at the University of Waterloo and now runs in 40+ cities, and worked as an engineer at Affirm. He studied computer engineering at the University of Waterloo and is a member of the Forbes Business Council.
He goes by both names professionally: "Aditya Sharma" is his full name and the one used in press, including The Wall Street Journal; "Adi Sharma" is what he uses day to day and on social media (@adityas129).
Adam Syed is a co-founder of Keel alongside Aditya (Adi) Sharma.
At Palo Alto Networks he worked on the product team for GlobalProtect, the company's secure remote-access and zero-trust endpoint product, working directly with the IT and network security teams.
Keel (Keel Systems, Inc.) is an agentic platform for IT teams, founded by Aditya (Adi) Sharma and Adam Syed. It connects to the systems a company already runs — identity, MDM, SaaS, network, ticketing — and deploys agents that diagnose and resolve the issues that would otherwise escalate to a senior engineer. Keel's SOC 2 audit is in progress.
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