Adam Daily
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolAdam Daily is a Senior Software Development Engineer at AWS with six years of hands-on experience building automation, platform components, and migration services for large enterprises moving to the cloud. He has deep expertise in infrastructure change automation, deployment tooling, and internal operations frameworks for AWS Managed Services, and contributes to improving test reliability in notable open-source tooling like the CloudFormation CLI. Adam blends a data-driven, creative problem-solving mindset—shaped by graduate research in cognitive neuroscience—with practical engineering, often tackling tricky edge cases like pagination and update-less resources in test suites. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he mentors peers, helps define development standards, and hires for teams focused on configuration management, systems automation, and large-scale deployments.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoMaster's Degree, Cognitive Psychology, Master's Degree, Cognitive Psychology at University of California, Riverside
Spanish
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Github Skills (7)
pytest10
python10
test-automation10
aws-cloudformation8
aws8
inheritance6
if-statement6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aws-cloudformation/cloudformation-cli
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
The CloudFormation Provider Development Toolkit allows you to author your own resource providers and modules that can be used by CloudFormation.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on enhancing the testing framework within the CloudFormation CLI project. Their contributions include updating contract tests to align with CRUDL (Create, Read, Update, Delete, List) expectations, adding tests for update operations, and fixing pagination issues in list operations. They also addressed bugs related to resources that lack an update handler and added an invoke helper to run single handler tests, highlighting a focus on test coverage and reliability.
resource-providersaws-cloudformationproviderprovidersaws
aws-ia/terraform-aws-control_tower_account_factory
Nov 2021 - Feb 2025
AWS Control Tower Account Factory
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 3 months
control-towerfactoryaccountawstower
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