Adam Kocoloski
Distinguished Engineer at Airbnb
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Kocoloski is a Distinguished Engineer at Airbnb with 20 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems and cloud data services. Formerly VP & CTO for IBM Cloud Data Services and CTO of Cloudant, he blends executive leadership with deep hands-on engineering in databases, DevOps, and platform reliability. He contributes to notable open-source projects like Apache CouchDB—improving Docker images, persistence and security handling—and helps keep core documentation and operational practices current. Trained as a physicist (PhD, MIT), he brings a research‑informed approach to solving production problems and translating complex systems into maintainable services. Based in Boston, he is equally comfortable steering product strategy and diving into entrypoint scripts or migration docs to reduce operational friction.
21 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree, Physics, Philosophy, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics, Philosophy at University of Dayton
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
couchdb10
docker10
technical-writing10
configuration-management10
bash10
apache10
containerization10
dockers10
configuration-file10
configurations10
documentation10
cicd9
indexing9
pac9
pact9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
apache/couchdb-docker
Jan 2018 - Feb 2022
Semi-official Apache CouchDB Docker images
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Adam's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the CouchDB Docker images. They focused on improving the entrypoint script, modifying file permissions, and introducing a developer-friendly Dockerfile. The user also addressed issues related to configuration persistence and the handling of environment variables such as `COUCHDB_ERLANG_COOKIE`, ensuring settings survive container restarts and improving security.
couchdbdocker-imageerlangnetwork-clientcplusplus
apache/couchdb-documentation
Dec 2017 - Apr 2021
Apache CouchDB Documentation
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 reviews, 23 commits, 33 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the project by updating and expanding the project's documentation. Their changes focused on documenting new features like the `_approx_count_distinct` built-in, the new seedlist configuration setting, the background indexing system, the IO Queue subsystem, and the rexi configuration settings. The user also updated documentation, including the Clouseau install process and the new compaction daemon, including migration steps. They also removed outdated mentions of fields.
couchdberlangnetwork-clientcplusplusbig-data
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