Adam Lee

In my twenty years as a software engineer, I have come to learn a lot about the processes by which software is designed, implemented and delivered. I have worked in all aspects of software, from requirements gathering and interfacing with clients to spending long nights coding to ensure that a project meets its deadline, and this vertical knowledge of the process gives me great insight as an architect and a team lead. I have learned about the necessary balance between trying to write the perfect piece of software and delivering working software on-time. Most importantly, I have learned to design software that accomplishes the task at hand without over-engineering, but is still re-usable and extensible in the future. My main area of interest is core system design and architecture. I enjoy designing and implementing frameworks, pluggable components, tiered systems and abstraction layers. I also enjoy developing core components and low level mechanisms in applications such as caches, resource managers and global asynchronous processes. I have extensive experience with data modeling, transformation, migration and database integration. I have overseen many projects through the full development cycle and I have gained a practical approach with regards to business sense and flexibility as a software engineer. Specialties: Highly-scalable, concurrent, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. Object-oriented design. Functional programming. Large-scale architectures. Algorithms and data structures. Release management. Agile process. Estimation and planning. Team lead. Web-scale data. Key-value stores. Eventual consistency. Lots of keywords.