Adam Christian
Engineering Manager at Air
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Christian is an engineering manager and founder with 18 years of experience building developer tools, cloud-native systems, and test automation. He co-founded Stateful (runme.dev, now CNCF-affiliated) and continues hands-on as CEO, instrumenting the product acquisition funnel, web UI/UX, and an AI copilot for engineering workflows. He currently leads revenue engineering at Air while shipping full-stack features as an individual contributor. Previously he scaled teams and products at Buoyant and Sauce Labs, driving Linkerd and cloud test automation efforts. An active open-source contributor, he has worked on Appium and the wd Node.js WebDriver client, bringing deep practical experience with WebDriver/Selenium and CI/CD integrations. Colleagues value his blend of founder-level operational rigor, growth-oriented product instincts, and technical craftsmanship.
19 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Business Administration Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Washington State University
German, English
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
node-js10
webdriver10
selenium10
selenium310
testing10
seleniumide10
javascripts10
express-js10
appium10
api-design9
api-doc9
automation9
api9
test-automation9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
admc/wd
Apr 2011 - Aug 2020
A node.js client for webdriver/selenium 2.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:198 commits, 36 PRs, 51 pushes in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the development of a Node.js client for the WebDriver/Selenium 2 project, wd. Their work included initial setup, merging pull requests for improvements, and adding test suites to validate functionality. They also implemented features such as authentication and URL handling, and fixed a bug. Additionally, the user integrated examples for using the client.
js-clientnode-jspageobjectbrowserstackselenium-webdriver
appium/appium
Jan 2013 - May 2013
Cross-platform automation framework for all kinds of apps, built on top of the W3C WebDriver protocol
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:101 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily worked on setting up the initial server and routing, including the creation of basic HTTP routes and integration with the Express framework. They introduced core files such as `app.js`, `server.js` and `controller.js` and configured the server to handle requests. The user also added several web server commands, API endpoints, and implemented the ability to send JavaScript to the instruments via the `proxy` function within appium.js, for integration with the iOS testing framework. Finally, sample test apps and supporting Javascript and Python test scripts, including selenium integration, were added and updated.
test-automationwindowsappiumw3c-webdriverframework
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