Adam Hart
Principal Software Engineer at Zendesk
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Hart is a Principal Software Engineer in San Francisco with over a decade of experience advancing backend systems and deployment tooling at Zendesk. He rose through multiple engineering tiers at Zendesk—from Customer Advocate to Principal—demonstrating deep domain knowledge in reliability, sustainment, and platform evolution. His contributions to the popular open-source Samson deployment tool show a practical focus on backend integrations, database schema design, and extensible webhook-driven workflows for Kubernetes deployments. Adam combines hands-on coding with architectural leadership, mentoring teams to ship robust, production-grade features. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and brings a rare blend of customer-facing support experience and large-scale engineering stewardship.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at D.C. Everest Senior High
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restful-api9
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/samson
Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
Web interface for deployments, with plugin architecture and kubernetes support
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 18 PRs, 93 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the backend aspects of the Samson project, focusing on adding features such as outbound webhooks. Their work involved modifications to the database schema (db/schema.rb) and implementation of logic within models (e.g., OutboundWebhook, DeployService). They also made changes to controllers, serializers, and views, suggesting a focus on integrating new functionality within the existing application structure.
kubernetesplugin-architecturecdcontinuous-delivery
zendesk/link_platform
Jun 2018 - Sep 2020
A SaaS application for linking community services to end users
Contributions:4 reviews, 75 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 3 months
saas-application
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