Adam Gordon
Lafayette, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Gordon is a software engineering manager with 25 years of hands-on full-stack and platform experience who specialises in restoring execution, credibility, and throughput in complex, fast-changing organisations. He builds teams and hiring systems as engineered systems—hiring for judgment and values, setting explicit expectations, coaching aggressively, and removing friction to make delivery predictable rather than heroic. Adam has led delivery under IPO readiness pressure, security incidents, and chronic churn, driving measurable improvements like >85% AI-assisted test coverage and major reductions in feedback latency. He combines product-facing ownership (running customer reporting platforms and front-end ecosystems) with deep technical craftsmanship, contributing to high-profile open-source projects such as Spinnaker (Orca, Clouddriver, Deck) and ng-bootstrap. Recently he has focused on designing hiring and delivery practices for an AI-augmented engineering world, publishing a case study and speaking publicly on effective evaluation of tool-augmented candidates. Based in Lafayette, Colorado, he pairs mathematical training with pragmatic leadership to create conditions where high-performing teams sustainably scale.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MS Applied Mathematics, MS Applied Mathematics at University of Colorado BoulderBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Dowling College
German, Spanish, Hebrew, Spanish
Github Skills (50)
javascript10
bootstrap10
groovy10
typescript10
alerts10
ui-design10
cicd10
java10
javas10
uid10
aws10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
html10
bootstra10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
spinnaker/deck
Aug 2016 - Oct 2017
Management UI for Spinnaker
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 215 commits, 252 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Adam contributed to the Spinnaker Deck UI, a management UI for Spinnaker, by implementing UI updates, fixing bugs, and improving code organization. They worked on adding descriptions to the Quip stage, updating versions, and cleaning up files in the core modules, and they also addressed a bug in the Docker trigger. The user also modified the layout and functionality of the canary UI to improve the user experience. Their work included updating the UI elements with a new tagging widget, adding features related to searching the system, and modifying existing features, indicating full-stack proficiency.
reactmanagement-uispinnakerreactjsapollo-client
ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap
Nov 2015 - Sep 2016
Angular powered Bootstrap
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 72 PRs, 32 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the ng-bootstrap demo site. Their work involved adding and styling demo components, including alerts and accordions, as well as restructuring the site's layout and navigation. They also addressed various UX issues, updated GitHub links, and implemented features such as self-closing alerts. Furthermore, they focused on code formatting and documentation updates.
datepickerprogress-barbootstrap-5datetime-pickerpopover
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