About Adam
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.
Experience
- Senior Software EngineerJan 2024 - Present · 1 yr 6 mosSan Francisco Bay Area · RemoteCurrent
Building large-scale web applications, owning the entire SDLC from requirements gathering to architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations. Creating deployment pipelines and infrastructure Helping to scale large systems using Azure technologies like message queues, function apps, durable functions, etc Creating microsites using nextjs and TypeScript Skills: Microsoft Visual Studio Code · Problem Solving · Product Requirements · GraphQL · Back-End Web Development · C# · Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) · Cloud Applications · Microsoft Azure · Cloud-Native Applications · Computer Science · React.js · Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) · Representational State Transfer (REST) · Developer Tools · Communication · Engineering · Perforce · Agile Application Development · Distributed Systems · Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) · TypeScript · HTML · Internet Security · Microservices · Documentation · Cloud Computing · Software Architecture · .NET Framework
Education
- University of MinnesotaUnfinished, Computer Science1998 - 1999
Skills: Computer Science · Engineering
- Fargo South High School1995 - 1998
Skills
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HTMLRepresentational State Transfer (REST)EngineeringMicrosoft Visual Studio CodeCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Product RequirementsInternet SecurityComputer ScienceCloud-Native ApplicationsWebAssemblyCommunicationFlaskGraphQL
At a glance
Experience23 years
Currently atAlaska Airlines · Contract
Based inUnited States
Studied atUniversity of Minnesota
Roles15
Skills48
LanguagesGerman · English · Spanish
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