The document outlines the career experience and skills of Jeffrey Adams, a software engineer with a passion for improving existing software by fixing technical debt and other issues. It details his work history at various companies like Google, SpotOn, Azavea, and others where he led migrations, improved performance, security, and development processes.
The document outlines the career experience and skills of Jeffrey Adams, a software engineer with a passion for improving existing software by fixing technical debt and other issues. It details his work history at various companies like Google, SpotOn, Azavea, and others where he led migrations, improved performance, security, and development processes.
The document outlines the career experience and skills of Jeffrey Adams, a software engineer with a passion for improving existing software by fixing technical debt and other issues. It details his work history at various companies like Google, SpotOn, Azavea, and others where he led migrations, improved performance, security, and development processes.
The document outlines the career experience and skills of Jeffrey Adams, a software engineer with a passion for improving existing software by fixing technical debt and other issues. It details his work history at various companies like Google, SpotOn, Azavea, and others where he led migrations, improved performance, security, and development processes.
Jeffrey Adams www.linkedin.com/in/jeffadams123 Staff Software Engineer (LinkedIn) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Top Skills Summary
Architectural Design I have a real passion for improving software. Many people want to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) build the "next big thing," but I really want to fix the "current big thing" Software Infrastructure -- the software that everyone needs but isn't fun to work on any more because it suffers from technical debt, bugs, or poor performance.
Fixing tech debt is incredibly satisfying to me, both when doing it
directly (via refactoring, upgrading deprecated libraries, improving performance) and when done at a higher level via improving team development processes. I want to make changes that have a real impact for existing users, enable scaling to handle the next (thousand, million, billion) users, and simultaneously improve the system for fellow developers.
Experience SpotOn Staff Software Engineer April 2023 - Present (1 year) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
* Improved velocity and reduced customer risk by introducing overhauled
CICD and peer review workflows. * Daily releases with stored artifacts allow low-risk rollbacks. * Engineers can now submit smaller pieces of work more frequently. * Automatically generated notifications to product and customer folks on released features and fixes.
* Came up with a plan and framework to migrate our legacy backend from an obsolete database driver to a modern one, unblocking improved security and features, then worked with a team to implement the changes. * Added metrics, logging, and tracing to our data tier to track usage of old vs new. * Introduced an abstraction layer allowing use of both drivers with minimal changes to higher level code.
Page 1 of 3 * Used feature flags to control conversion between drivers at a granular level, so we can roll out small changes at a time and roll back instantly if needed. * Dramatically improved test coverage for the data tier as part of this effort.
Google Senior Software Engineer August 2011 - January 2023 (11 years 6 months) New York, NY, United States
● Worked in various product areas including Ads, Maps, Cloud, and Security. ● Large scale migrations including: ○ JQuery -> AngularJS & Angular ○ Python 2 -> Python 3 ○ Proto1 -> Proto2 ○ Python -> Go ● Dramatic performance improvements (latency reductions) on various systems ranging from 3x to over 20x. ● Improved my service’s throughput by 10x. ● Sweeping cross-organization security changes including migrating to new hash algorithms and removing use of insecure configurations and policies. ● Code health improvements including: ○ Migration from bespoke to standard continuous integration/deployment processes. ○ Improve system-wide error handling for UX and debugging improvements. ○ Deflaking tests, improving test coverage (e.g. 50%->90% on one project). ○ Setting up side-by-side evals for release candidates. ○ Deprecate and turn down obsolete libraries, configurations, and entire services. ● Built a structured data comparison service supporting multiple common formats. ● Oncall engineer for systems I worked on including frontends used by 10000s of other engineers and backends handling 1000s of QPS. ● Provided technical direction and mentorship for junior engineers.
Azavea Lead Software Engineer June 2006 - August 2011 (5 years 3 months) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
● Produced custom GIS web applications such as map.toronto.ca/wellbeing.
● Built a prototype map algebra library to run on the GPU using OpenCL.
Page 2 of 3 ● Designed and maintained extensive common libraries & APIs used across multiple projects. ● Led the initiative to open-source some of our libraries, such as github.com/ azavea/fastdao. ● Developed a high-performance distributed data processing engine for analyzing data on large geographic areas in a short enough time to respond to user actions on the client. ● Improved development processes via the addition of unit tests, automated testing, and continuous integration.
ProLogic, Inc. Lead Software Engineer October 2004 - June 2006 (1 year 9 months) Manassas, Virginia, United States
● Integrated a Java/Swing desktop application with approximately a dozen
disparate data sources (proprietary databases, flat files, web services). ● Developed a web-service-based data broker to handle caching and distributing data to clients.
BioVeris Corporation Senior Software Engineer September 2000 - October 2004 (4 years 2 months) McLean, Virginia, United States
