Adam Dyess
Senior Software Engineer at Chainguard
Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Dyess is a Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience designing and shipping cloud-native, containerized systems—most recently focused on Kubernetes and secure supply-chain tooling at Chainguard. He has deep hands-on expertise across cloud operations, Kubernetes distributions, snaps/charms, Terraform and Helm, and a background that spans low-level hardware integration to software architecture in telecom and networking. Adam favors breaking complex problems into reusable, well-documented components and champions rigorous testing across unit, integration, system and security layers. Comfortable leading teams and building operational tooling, he’s equally at home writing device drivers as orchestrating large-scale Kubernetes deployments. Based in Alabama, he pairs an electrical and computer engineering foundation with practical cloud production experience, often approaching cloud challenges with the precision of a systems engineer.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of BristolMaster of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The University of Alabama in HuntsvilleHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Montgomery AcademyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University
German
Github Skills (200)
python10
python-client10
juju10
cloud-native10
k8s10
collaboration10
operator10
aiohttp10
client-library10
launchpad10
snap10
linux10
mattermost10
golang10
kubelet10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
charmed-kubernetes/charm-lib-kubernetes-snaps
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
Charm library for installing and configuring Kubernetes snaps
Contributions:34 reviews, 31 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year 7 months
charmed-kubernetes/interface-kube-control
Jul 2022 - Feb 2025
Control interface between master and worker charms
Contributions:1 release, 8 reviews, 5 PRs in 2 years 7 months
workercharmsmastercontrol-interface
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