Adam Curtis
Senior Software Engineer at InfluxData
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolAdam Curtis is a cloud-native Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience delivering reliable systems across the DevSecOps lifecycle for startups and large enterprises. He blends platform and product collaboration to move code to production securely and efficiently, most recently contributing to InfluxData after building a Rust CLI at CloudTruth. An active open-source back-end contributor, Adam has improved query optimization, error handling, and performance in the Apache DataFusion SQL engine. Based in the Atlanta metro area, he brings practical expertise in reducing allocations and hardening query planning—skills that surface in both production systems and critical open-source projects.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Southern Polytechnic State University
English
Github Skills (11)
fusion10
query-engine10
rust10
sql10
optimization9
error-handling9
testing8
algorithms6
algorithm6
data-structures6
data-structure6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
apache/datafusion
Jan 2024 - Mar 2026
Apache DataFusion SQL Query Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 reviews, 11 PRs, 105 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the Apache DataFusion SQL Query Engine, focusing on query optimization and improving the engine's robustness. Their work involved fixing bugs related to placeholder substitution, parameter type coercion, and error handling within the query planning phase. They also refactored code to reduce allocations and improved the simplification process of expressions. Additionally, they added new tests to cover error cases.
sql-queryarrowbig-datadataframedatafusion
erratic-pattern/arrow-datafusion
Jan 2024 - Mar 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 80 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years 2 months
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