Adam Wiggins
Organizer at Ink & Switch
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Wiggins is a Heroku cofounder and author of 12factor.net, now focused on digital tools and computing for creators at the Ink & Switch research lab and organizing the Local-First Conference from Berlin. Over a 17-year career he’s founded and led multiple startups—including Founder & CTO at Heroku and CEO roles at Ink & Switch and Muse Software—and served as GM of Platform at The Browser Company. A hands-on digital toolmaker, his open-source contributions range from front-end polish on the widely-cited 12factor site to backend work like Clockwork (a cron-replacing scheduler) and a database import/export tool where he refactored connections to a session-based model with transaction-aware loading and pagination. He combines product leadership, research-oriented thinking, and practical engineering to ship creator-focused systems that prioritize developer ergonomics and local-first workflows.
18 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at UCSD
Github Skills (26)
api-rest10
sequel10
algorithms10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
css10
scheduler10
ruby10
scheduling10
sinatra10
sched10
database-design10
html10
rest-api10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
adamwiggins/clockwork
May 2010 - Nov 2016
A scheduler process to replace cron
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 1 push in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily worked on enhancing the `clockwork` project, a scheduler, by implementing new features and improving the code. Their contributions included adding support for time units (seconds, minutes, hours, days), specifying time for daily events, and refactoring the code by renaming classes and methods. Further improvements involve adding a logging system for better monitoring and debugging, as well as setting up unit tests to ensure the project's reliability.
golangprocess-schedulerschedulercron
adamwiggins/12factor
Jun 2011 - Jan 2013
Official fork now at: https://github.com/heroku/12factor
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:75 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on enhancing the visual presentation of the "12factor" project's website. They implemented CSS styling to improve the aesthetics, including adjustments to font sizes, spacing, and layout. Furthermore, the user added a header with a link to the twelve-factor app home page, and styled the navigation elements and footer content.
herokuazerothcoretrinitycore12factormodular
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