Adam Harwell
Senior Staff Engineer at GEICO
Bellingham, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Harwell is a Senior Staff Engineer with 13 years of experience designing resilient, scalable backend systems and leading distributed, remote teams. He has deep cloud and load-balancing expertise from contributions to OpenStack Octavia and Rackspace’s Cloud Load Balancing, including TLS data security and certificate handling work that tied into OpenStack Barbican. Adam’s career spans enterprise and consumer-facing platforms at GEICO, Yahoo, and GoDaddy, and he brings a pragmatic architect’s mindset that asks “why” as much as “how.” Comfortable in open source and Agile environments, he favors clear communication and rapid learning, often jumping into unfamiliar domains to deliver production-grade solutions. Based in Bellingham, WA, he pairs hands-on engineering with system-level thinking to turn complex requirements into reliable, auditable services.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Trinity University
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Github Skills (6)
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python10
apidoc9
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openstack9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/octavia
Oct 2014 - Sep 2021
Load Balancing as a Service (LBaaS) for OpenStack. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:277 commits in 7 years
Contributions summary:Adam contributed to the Octavia project by implementing features related to TLS data security and configuration. They added support for allowing specific file extensions in specification reviews and implemented the TLS Data Security Overview blueprint, which detailed the overall strategy for handling secure TLS data and integrating with Barbican. They also introduced the KeystoneAuth global configuration data and implemented certificate handling interfaces using Python.
boshcloud-foundryopenshiftload-balancingcloudfoundry
eq-p99-tools/ninjalooter
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Track loot drops/bidding for raids
Contributions:47 releases, 3 reviews, 170 commits in 2 years 5 months
dropslootraidsbidding
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