Adam Blackwell
Software Engineer at Lotic.ai, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Blackwell is a software engineer in New York with 11 years of experience building full-stack applications and resilient infrastructure. He combines front-end expertise in React and React Native with backend and DevOps skills, shipping production-ready systems and infrastructure automation for projects like openedx-unsupported. Adam has a track record of turning complex protocols into usable libraries—he built the first Apache Kafka client for Deno—while favoring TypeScript, Deno’s standard library, and lightweight dependencies for security and maintainability. He mentors teams and runs engineering processes, having led daily scrums and guided product development under a tech accelerator. Curious about both UX and low-level systems, he bridges UI clarity with robust, repeatable deployment practices.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Northeastern University
Github Skills (15)
sh10
infrastructure-as-code10
configuration-management10
ansible-galaxy10
script10
docker10
bash10
shell10
dockers10
scripting10
cicd10
ansible10
python9
ubuntu9
aws8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
openedx-unsupported/configuration
Jul 2019 - Oct 2022
A collection of edx configuration scripts and utilities that edx.org uses to deploy openedx.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:196 reviews, 70 commits, 76 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on infrastructure and configuration management, updating the underlying AMI used for the sandbox environment. They made several iterations to the AMI configuration, reverting and re-applying changes to ensure the correct AMI was used. The user also worked on modifying the Ansible bootstrap scripts, including changes to the installation process, removing unnecessary steps, and updating the build process to ensure the project is built correctly in various environments. Moreover, the user updated scripts, such as the syntax check script and the documentation, to reflect the usage of GitHub actions and SRE terminology.
pythonconfiguration-managementansibleedxconfiguration-scripts
adzuci/styleguide
Mar 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 years
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