Josh Adams
Co-Founder at Kolony
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Adams is a founder and software engineer based in Birmingham, Alabama, with 11 years of professional experience building product-focused engineering teams and cloud infrastructure. As Co‑Founder of Daring Bit Assembly he leads 15+ developers delivering business-impacting software across Elixir, Flutter, Ruby, Python and TypeScript, and as founder of Kolony he manages Kubernetes-backed cloud services at scale. He served as CTO at Truth Social where he assembled the core technical leadership and scaled an app to #1 in the App Store while deliberately avoiding dependence on public cloud providers. An active open-source contributor, he implemented core backend CRUD and tests for the Elixir+Phoenix forum engine firestorm that pairs an Elm frontend with an Elixir backend. His BA in Mathematics underpins a pragmatic, data-minded approach to engineering and product decisions.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics at University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Github Skills (23)
elixir10
phoenix-framework10
phoenix-live-view10
ecto10
apache-phoenix10
crud10
exunit9
database-migrations9
unit-testing9
testunit9
test-unit9
database-migration9
forum8
forums8
actor6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
firestormforum/firestorm
Dec 2016 - Jun 2019
An open-source forum engine, with an Elixir+Phoenix backend and an Elm frontend.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:478 commits, 131 PRs, 442 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Josh implemented core CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations for categories within the forum engine. They developed category-related tests, ensuring the functionality of index, new, create, show, edit, update, and delete operations. These contributions involved modifications to the category controller, models, templates, and database migrations, specifically within the Elixir and Phoenix backend framework.
phoenix-frameworkelmforumelixirforum-engine
firestormforum/firestorm_elm
Mar 2017 - Oct 2019
Elm prototype for firestorm
Contributions:97 commits, 6 PRs, 85 pushes in 2 years 8 months
elmfirestormprototype
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