Adam Howsley
Sr. Manager, Observability at Zillow
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Howsley is a seasoned platform and observability leader who builds durable systems and teams that continue to operate smoothly when people step away. With experience leading observability at Zillow for 2,500+ engineers and managing a $9M+ vendor portfolio, he combines deep technical execution—account consolidation, tracing enablement, cost guardrails—with strategic vendor and open-source migration plans. A founder who has run a SaaS product since 2013, he blends hands-on product, infrastructure, and security ownership with people-first management that treats organizational design as an engineering problem. He has a track record of stabilizing teams after disruption, creating metrics-driven cultures, and delivering measurable cost and operational wins across Twitch, Zillow, and academic IT environments. Open to director roles, he brings candid, evidence-driven leadership and an uncommon focus on designing feedback loops and shared knowledge so good decisions become the default.
2 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Texas A&M UniversityM.S., Software Engineering, M.S., Software Engineering at University of Houston-Clear Lake
Korean
Github Skills (5)
twirp10
protobuf9
rpc8
grpc7
go7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
twitchtv/twirp
Feb 2024 - May 2024
A simple RPC framework with protobuf service definitions
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 months
rpcprotobufgrpcrpc-frameworkdefinitions
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