Adam Houston
Senior Staff Platform Engineer
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Houston is a Senior Staff Platform Engineer with 11 years' experience building and scaling cloud-native infrastructure for fintech and services companies from Belfast. He specializes in containerization, Kubernetes, CI/CD and SRE practices, having led large migrations from legacy RPM apps to on‑prem and cloud Kubernetes platforms running thousands of containers. Adam combines hands-on engineering—authoring Go tools and reusable Jenkins Shared Libraries—with technical leadership as a global SME and mentor, shaping developer adoption through documentation and community sessions. A long-standing passion for Go and Rust informs his approach to performant, maintainable tooling, and his background in software engineering from Queen’s University Belfast underpins a pragmatic focus on observability, automation and repeatable delivery.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Queen's University BelfastFoundation Degree Computing and Software Development, Foundation Degree Computing and Software Development at North West Regional CollegeHigh School Computing Maths Engineering, High School Computing Maths Engineering at Limavady Grammar School
English
Github Skills (31)
materialize6
api6
go-client6
react5
rest-api5
spring-boot5
rest5
spring5
broom4
startpage4
zap4
browser4
golang4
terraform4
firefox4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ahstn/karetaker
Apr 2020 - Jul 2021
:broom: :wheel_of_dharma: Designed to oversee and clean-up your cluster's deployments.
Contributions:18 PRs, 41 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 3 months
dharmabroomcleankuberneteswheel
ahstn/startpage
Dec 2014 - Feb 2019
Contributions:38 commits, 1 PR, 33 pushes in 4 years 3 months
firefoxbrowserweb-browserstartpageweb-personal
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