Adam Brown
Staff Software Engineer I at Confluent
Mesa, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Brown is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-throughput, low-latency services and the developer-facing infrastructure that lets organizations scale reliably. His career spans roles at Confluent, GitHub, Gradle, and Amazon, where he’s led architecture and productivity efforts—implementing microservice standards, automated SDK and test-generation, and core services handling millions of requests per day. He favors automated testing and thorough documentation to keep rapidly growing teams from breaking working systems, and actively mentors through code review and design leadership. Based in Mesa, Arizona, Adam combines deep systems and Java expertise with a track record of improving engineering productivity and developer onboarding at both startups and large platforms. A not-obvious strength: he intentionally seeks out teammates smarter than him and turns that dynamic into better-shared knowledge and higher-quality engineering outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Sciences, BS, Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (170)
python10
json-schema10
producer-consumer10
python-client10
automation10
cloud-object-storage10
rest-api10
stream-processing10
schema10
k8s10
avro10
stream10
interactive10
sql10
ksqldb10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
acourtneybrown/common
Jun 2021 - Jun 2023
Common utilities library containing metrics, config and utils
Contributions:20 pushes, 10 branches, 40 tags in 2 years
sarifdata-exchangeinternalsutilityconfig
acourtneybrown/ksql
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
The event streaming database purpose-built for stream processing applications
Contributions:35 pushes, 13 branches, 43 tags in 3 months
stream-processingevent-streamingksqldbstreaming-datacomplex-event-processing
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