Adam Lassek
Staff Software Engineer at WP Engine
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Lassek is a Staff Software Engineer and full-stack architect with 15 years of experience designing and operating mission-critical SaaS platforms, currently driving engineering at WP Engine from Omaha. He blends deep Ruby and JavaScript fluency with systems-level skills across API design, complex front-end UIs, networking, security, and database optimization for multi-million-record datasets. His career spans hands-on roles from lead architect to senior engineer, and he contributes to notable open-source work on the Hanami Ruby web framework, improving core configuration and database provider behavior. Comfortable bridging DevOps, backend, and frontend concerns, he’s known for pragmatic, fail-safe design choices that keep enterprise services resilient and maintainable.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree, Microcomputer Technology, Associate’s Degree, Microcomputer Technology at Metropolitan Community College
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Github Skills (39)
linq-to-sql10
web-application10
back-end-development10
css10
ruby10
hanami10
html10
ruby-on-rails10
tsql9
controller9
javascript9
ajax9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hanami/hanami
Jan 2023 - May 2026
A flexible framework for maintainable Ruby apps
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 12 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the Hanami web framework, focusing on improving its core functionality and configuration. Their work involved providing fail-safe configurations for the logger, configuring slice registrations, and adding utility methods to the slice class. They also refactored the database provider to replace the ROM inflector with the Hanami inflector and integrated test database renaming, which ensured consistency.
rubyhanamiweb-applicationapiruby-application
alassek/activerecord-pg_enum
Jun 2018 - Jul 2022
Integrate PostgreSQL's enumerated types with the Rails enum feature
Contributions:7 reviews, 87 commits, 14 PRs in 4 years 1 month
enumerated-typespostgresqlrailsruby-on-railsenum
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