Adam Friedman is a Senior Software Engineer based in New South Wales with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and implementing complex, cloud-native systems. He combines deep platform and infrastructure expertise—evidenced by contributions to high-profile projects like the official .NET Kubernetes client and SaltStack cloud integrations—with a pragmatic focus on product quality and measurable outcomes. Adam has driven strategic platform work at Dimension Data, building Terraform and Docker Machine providers and a concurrent provisioning engine, and now applies that pragmatic, empowering approach to productivity at WealthO2. Known for rapid technology uptake and clear knowledge transfer, he prefers making the right thing easy rather than policing behavior, and his open-source work improving Kubernetes WebSocket security and testing reflects that attention to reliability and security.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.IT. - Incomplete, Business Information Technology, B.IT. - Incomplete, Business Information Technology at University of New South Wales
B.Sc. (CompSci) - Incomplete, Computer Science, B.Sc. (CompSci) - Incomplete, Computer Science at Macquarie University
Contributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 102 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the Kubernetes client library, focusing on enhancing WebSocket functionality. They implemented custom certificate validation for WebSockets, improved SSL customization, and added tests for exec-in-pod over WebSockets. Further contributions included refactoring the WebSocket connection factory and migrating project structures. Their work improved the security and reliability of WebSocket connections within the Kubernetes client library.
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 17 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the Dimension Data cloud provider integration within the SaltStack project. Their work involved adding integration tests, ensuring proper data serialization for event payloads, and correctly passing parameters to the Dimension Data driver. Furthermore, the user corrected a copy/paste bug and fixed linting issues within the provider's codebase. These contributions suggest a focus on cloud infrastructure management and testing within the SaltStack ecosystem.
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Adam Friedman - Senior Software Engineer at WealthO2