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.
11 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 (174)
python10
ubuntu10
scheduling10
juju10
k8s10
collaboration10
operator10
mesos10
snap10
mattermost10
golang10
monorepo10
csi10
kubernetes10
cicd10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
charmed-kubernetes/charm-aws-cloud-provider
Mar 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:3 reviews, 16 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 1 month
canonical/k8s-bundles
Apr 2024 - Mar 2026
Contributions:49 reviews, 42 PRs, 104 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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