Adam Dierkens
Staff Software Engineer at GitHub
Matawan, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Dierkens is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building developer tooling and release automation, currently at GitHub after a multi-year engineering leadership track at Intuit. He specializes in build & release systems and automation—contributing to notable open-source tooling like intuit/auto to streamline semantic-release workflows and improve CI/CD reliability. Adam has progressed from coop roles to principal-level responsibilities, demonstrating hands-on coding combined with architectural ownership across large-scale product teams. Based in Matawan, New Jersey, he brings a pragmatic, test-focused approach to shipping dependable systems and improving developer experience. An engineer who admits "spelling is my downfall," he balances meticulous automation work with a sense of humor and attention to small but impactful details.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at Northeastern University
Github Skills (9)
release-management10
automation10
automations10
cicd10
github9
javascript8
nodejs8
plugin7
auto-release7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
intuit/auto
Dec 2018 - Jul 2022
Generate releases based on semantic version labels on pull requests.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:554 releases, 6 reviews, 47 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to automating the release process of the project. Their work included modifying existing plugins to use baseBranch from options instead of environment variables. They also made updates to use glob support for uploading assets and made minor fixes to the Slack messages. Additional contributions involved adding test support.
publishingjirarelease-automationsemantic-versioningslack
adierkens/storybook-addon-state
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
A storybook addon to give you access to store/retrieve arbitrary data.
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 months
reactarbitrarystorybookaddonarbitrary-data
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