Adam Emerson
Princpal Software Engineer at IBM
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Emerson is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years focused on distributed storage and the Ceph ecosystem, currently serving as upstream technical co-lead for the RADOS Gateway (RGW) at IBM. He specializes in implementing S3 and Swift protocols, delivering features like bucket policy support, an asynchronous RADOS client, improved multisite sync consistency, and targeted performance and reliability fixes. His background spans startups and enterprise teams, from pNFS work at CohortFS to long-tenured engineering at Red Hat, giving him deep protocol-level and systems design expertise. Based in Ann Arbor, he pairs a Mathematics and Linguistics degree from the University of Michigan with a pragmatic, developer-first mindset—aiming to leave readable, well-documented code for the "digital archaeologists" of tomorrow.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Linguistics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Linguistics at University of Michigan
Github Skills (134)
libgit210
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ovirt10
vms10
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glusterfs10
filemaker10
artifacts10
lucky-framework10
high-performance10
tarball10
infiniband10
kubernetes10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
adamemerson/ceph
Feb 2016 - Jul 2026
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 1523 pushes in 10 years 7 months
ceph
adamemerson/tekuti-azure
Mar 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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