Adam Gwilliam
BA QA at American Airlines
Gilbert, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Gwilliam is a results-driven Lead QA and Business/System Analyst with over 20 years of experience and 16+ years leading QA teams and projects across enterprise environments like Intel and American Airlines. He combines hands-on test leadership—managing global teams of 100+ testers and driving concurrent test lifecycles—with business analysis skills in requirements, use cases, and end-user training to ensure timely, auditable delivery. Known for root-cause and trend analysis, he consistently identifies process improvements that reduce cost and boost operational efficiency while shepherding large-scale implementations from help desk to systems integration. A pragmatic executor who prefers solving problems to pitching ideas, he also contributes to open-source hardware firmware (QMK) by enabling VIA keymap support for niche keyboard layouts—showing a hands-on embedded/IoT curiosity beyond enterprise QA. Based in Gilbert, AZ, he seeks to apply his Agile practice and multi-disciplinary experience to lead QA, systems, or business analyst roles that value continuous improvement and execution.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology Project Management, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology Project Management at DeVry University Phoenix, AZ
Github Skills (23)
c-language10
atmel10
qmk-firmware10
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c1110
c1710
avr10
keyboard-layout10
sup10
sys10
atmel-studio10
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cprogramming-language10
su10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
qmk/qmk_firmware
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 6 commits, 8 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributes to the QMK firmware project by adding and modifying VIA keymap support for various keyboard models. Their work includes creating keymap files, updating configuration settings, and modifying rules to enable VIA functionality for keyboard layouts like the Boardsource 3x4, 4x12, and 5x12. These changes involve setting unique product IDs, adjusting vendor IDs, and ensuring the correct number of layers for VIA integration.
rp2040firmwareavratmelkeyboard-support
gwillad/qmk_firmware
Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 65 pushes in 10 months
rp2040nrf52840firmwareavratmel
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