Adam Alpern
Senior ICloud Software Engineer at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Alpern is a principal-level software engineer with over two decades of experience building high-performance platform and application services, and 14 years of continuous professional experience across startups and large tech companies. Currently a Senior iCloud Software Engineer at Apple, he has deep expertise in multithreaded C++ and Java REST services and more recently in Golang RPC systems, with strengths in networking, HTTP, performance tuning, and infrastructure design. He has a track record of owning the full software lifecycle—from requirements through maintenance—and has shipped indexed search, service-oriented architectures, and refactorings that improve long-lived codebases. His career spans influential roles at OpenTable, Urban Airship, Anki, and others, where he often served as the go-to engineer for complex backend challenges. An early programmer (started at age 8) who enjoys low-level performance problems, he also contributes practical open-source tooling such as a Ruby client for the Parse REST API. Based in San Francisco with a BA in Computer Science and AI from Hampshire College, he is not currently seeking new opportunities.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, BA, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence at Hampshire CollegeStuyvesant High School
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Github Skills (12)
json10
rest-api10
ruby10
object-oriented-programming9
data-structures8
data-structure8
http6
wsdl6
code-generation6
singleton6
rest6
django6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
adelevie/parse-ruby-client
Jan 2012 - Jan 2012
A simple Ruby client for the parse.com REST API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to building a Ruby client for the parse.com REST API. They implemented core functionalities like object creation, retrieval, updating, and deletion, centralizing HTTP calls and response handling. The user refactored code for a gem structure and added support for increment/decrement operations. Furthermore, they incorporated query functionalities, including the ability to filter objects based on various criteria.
restrest-apiruby-client
tessera-metrics/tessera
Mar 2014 - Aug 2019
A dashboard front-end for graphite.
Contributions:9 releases, 1934 commits, 181 PRs in 5 years 5 months
frontenddashboardgraphitemetricsmonitoring
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