Adam Edwards
Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Edwards is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building and operating cloud-scale data and automation platforms, currently serving as Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft in Seattle. He has driven engineering organizations from hands-on contributor roles at Chef—improving Chef Infra’s execution and cross-platform user identity handling—to senior leadership overseeing Microsoft Graph and Azure Data Factory. Adam blends deep systems and DevOps expertise with a continuous delivery mindset, emphasizing team health, trust, and measurable improvements to delivery. An active open-source contributor and self-described Afrofuturist, he brings a practical security focus and cross-platform Windows/cloud experience that often surfaces in subtle but impactful infrastructure fixes and test coverage improvements.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Michigan
Chinese, Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
chef-client10
chef-solo10
automation10
automations10
devops10
ruby10
windows9
rspec9
powershell8
rubocop7
azure-ad-graph-api6
microsoft-graph-api6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
chef/chef
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 31 PRs, 92 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to enhancing the execution resource, focusing on alternate user identity implementations within the Chef infrastructure automation platform. Their work involved refactoring code to address RuboCop violations, improving the handling of user credentials, and adapting Windows script functionality for alternate user scenarios. These changes aimed to improve security and provide more flexible execution options for the chef/chef repository. The user also introduced unit tests and expanded functional tests to cover diverse use cases, including those on Windows platforms.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
adamedx/PowerShellGraphDemo
Aug 2018 - Feb 2019
Demonstration of techniques used to access MS Graph through PowerShell
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 6 months
techniquesms-graphpowershellgraphms-access
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