Adam Bottchen
Senior Software Engineer at Puppet
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Bottchen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with a decade of hands-on experience building and operating enterprise infrastructure and automation at scale. At Puppet he has driven customer-facing product features, led architectural improvements like container runtime and automated DB maintenance, and spearheaded AI integration work tied to NPS and business goals. He stepped into technical leadership during transitions, cutting support escalation backlog by 90% and establishing automated release and API-driven test frameworks that became sellable product components. Comfortable across Java, Ruby, Kubernetes, Docker/Podman, PostgreSQL and OpenAI integrations, he combines deep systems troubleshooting from his IBM roots with modern platform engineering. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex operational challenges into repeatable, revenue‑enabling solutions while keeping Fortune 500 deployments running smoothly.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinComputer Science, Computer Science at Saint Louis UniversityLindbergh High School
French
Github Skills (56)
automation-framework10
winrm9
docker-image9
puppet9
puppet-enterprise8
bolt8
firewall-rules7
lvm7
trainings7
activemq7
ssh7
conftest7
devops6
kubernetes-cluster6
continuous-delivery6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
abottchen/ffdrafttracker
Aug 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:40 PRs, 72 pushes, 59 branches in 11 months
puppetlabs/puppetlabs-pam_firewall
Aug 2021 - Oct 2024
Configure firewall rules for Puppet Application Manager
Contributions:1 review, 23 PRs, 21 pushes in 3 years 2 months
firewall-rulespuppetfirewallpuppet-application-manager
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