Summary
Adam Berry is a Staff Engineer with a decade of experience building developer platforms and productivity tooling across companies like Netflix, Amplitude, Pinterest, Nutanix, and Confluent. He specializes in treating platforms as products, using Conway’s Law to intentionally shape team topologies and culture so engineers can ship higher-quality software faster. His background spans release engineering, automation, and large-scale infrastructure for big data and cloud environments, grounded in hands-on work with CI/CD, config management, and developer experience. Based in Urbana, Illinois, he combines technical architecture with organizational influence to drive measurable developer velocity, and he actively engages with the community of platform builders to exchange ideas and best practices.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MMath Mathematics, MMath Mathematics at University of East Anglia