Adam Kauffman is a Senior Software Developer in Portland, Oregon with nine years of experience solving tricky engineering and build-system problems. He’s known for doing new things well the first time, iterating quickly, and delivering practical fixes for longstanding deployment and tooling issues. As an automation and build/release engineer on the well-regarded Rubberduck VBA project, he’s tackled FIPS compliance, installer toolset upgrades, and OS-aware logging—work that keeps complex legacy toolchains reliable. At Syncro he continues to focus on continuous improvement and operational robustness, blending hands-on debugging with a knack for learning on the fly. Colleagues describe him as detail-oriented and unusually effective at turning edge-case failures into repeatable, auditable processes.
Every programmer needs a rubberduck. COM add-in for the VBA & VB6 IDE (VBE).
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on build and deployment-related tasks. They updated the WixToolset, added flags for FIPS systems, and addressed build issues related to FIPS compliance. Furthermore, they reverted and re-applied changes to the `RubberduckBaseProject.csproj` file, indicating debugging and potential iterative refinement of build configurations. The user also added logging for OS version information during Rubberduck's loading, which could be related to build or deployment configurations.
Path Length Checker is a stand-alone app that returns the paths and length of all files and directories in a given directory.
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 2 months
returnsstand-alonestandcheckerrust
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Adam Kauffman - Senior Software Developer at Syncro