Adam Gross
Senior Staff Engineer at Omnissa
Dexter, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Gross is a Senior Staff Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing high-impact build systems and product features, currently leading cross-continental engineering efforts at Omnissa after a long tenure at VMware. He specializes in build orchestration, CI/CD automation, and developer productivity improvements—recently unifying thousands of repositories onto GitHub Actions and designing an ecosystem of Python-based actions and TypeScript GitHub apps for multi-repo workflows. His background includes deep work on VMware Horizon client features (app remoting, Blast collaboration) and large-scale build optimizations such as remote caching that cut build times by up to 80%. Adam blends hands-on implementation with architectural leadership, regularly reviewing designs, driving partner integrations, and presenting strategy publicly (GitHub Universe 2024). He holds a Computer Science Engineering degree from the University of Michigan and is an inventor on multiple software patents, highlighting a pattern of practical innovation. Based in Dexter, Michigan, he pairs systems-level thinking with pragmatic automation to reduce operational friction and enable zero-downtime platform transitions.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science Engineering, Bachelors, Computer Science Engineering at University of Michigan
Github Skills (92)
cmake10
http-client10
build-automation10
cpp10
ninja10
linux10
visual-studio-extension10
pooling10
conan10
thread10
build-tools10
package-manager10
scons10
user-friendly10
ptvs10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
grossag/scons
Jul 2019 - Mar 2024
SCons - a software construction tool
Contributions:4 PRs, 160 pushes, 26 branches in 4 years 8 months
scons
grossag/git
Aug 2023 - Aug 2024
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
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