Adam Hicks
Sr. Solutions Architect at groundcover
Eaton, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Hicks is a senior solutions architect with 11 years of experience focused on accelerating hybrid cloud adoption through automation, observability, and platform engineering. He has held progressive technical leadership roles—from Field CTO and Practice Director at Trace3 to Senior Solutions Architect at Honeycomb and groundcover—helping enterprises translate cloud-native concepts into production outcomes. Adam blends hands-on DevOps, multi-cloud orchestration, and data engineering experience (Spark, Hadoop, ML pipelines) with a knack for shaping product and field strategy. He holds an MS in Computer Science and a certificate in Applied Generative AI, reflecting a commitment to both rigorous engineering and emerging AI-driven automation. Based in rural New Hampshire, he also coaches rock climbing and brings that long-term coaching mindset to mentoring small technical teams. He’s known for a wry sense of humor—“liking to answer rhetorical questions”—that surfaces in pragmatic, curiosity-driven problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Philosophy and Mathematics, Philosophy and Mathematics at University of OregonMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Colorado State UniversityCertificate Applied Generative AI for Digital Transformation, Certificate Applied Generative AI for Digital Transformation at MIT Professional EducationBA Philosophy, BA Philosophy at University of Colorado BoulderMathematics Mathematics, Mathematics Mathematics at Northern Michigan University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (47)
kubernetes10
powerdns10
cosign10
kubelet10
kubernetes-setup10
k8s10
radius9
vpn8
csv6
oracle6
curl6
flask6
binder6
sql6
python6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tadamhicks/rest-api
May 2018 - Mar 2025
Simple RESTful API written in golang for learning purposes
Contributions:39 PRs, 65 pushes, 51 branches in 6 years 11 months
golangapirestfulrestrest-api
tadamhicks/PowerDNS-Admin
Feb 2017 - Nov 2024
PowerDNS Web-GUI - Built by Flask
Contributions:13 PRs, 19 pushes, 17 branches in 7 years 10 months
pythonpyramidweb-guiquartflask
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