Adam Leff
Senior Director, Software Engineering at Salesforce
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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RockstarAdam Leff is a senior software engineering leader with 11 years of experience, currently serving as Senior Director of Software Engineering at Salesforce in the Washington DC–Baltimore area. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise with technical writing, having contributed key features and documentation to widely used open-source projects like Chef Infra and InSpec. Adam’s work spans reliable data collection, reporting, and automation—improving telemetry, expanding resource support, and hardening build and deployment automation for large-scale systems. Known internally as a "manager of technical things," he pairs pragmatic engineering with clear documentation to bridge developer experience and operational reliability.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (32)
markdown10
amazon-elasticsearch10
rspec10
audit10
functional-testing10
ruby10
chef-client10
automation10
elasticsearchquery10
markdown-it10
aws-elasticsearch10
jtest10
compliance10
elasticsearch10
chef-solo10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
inspec/inspec
Mar 2016 - Jan 2018
InSpec: Auditing and Testing Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 releases, 303 commits, 496 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on enhancing the InSpec framework by adding new resources and refining existing ones. Their contributions included developing the `crontab` and `elasticsearch` resources, improving the `http` resource to support remote workers, and addressing issues related to the `port` and `file` resources. The user also contributed to infrastructure and automation, including setting up the habitat profile and resolving several configuration and build issues.
testing-frameworkdevsecdevopsauditinspec
chef/chef
Apr 2016 - Jan 2018
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:45 commits, 48 PRs, 84 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the Chef Infra project by implementing and improving the DataCollector feature. Their work involved creating a new reporter to export data about Chef runs, enhancing existing reporting mechanisms, and addressing bugs related to the Data Collector. This included expanding the data collected, refactoring for efficiency, ensuring correct metadata handling, and improving the overall reliability of the data collection process. They also updated the code to handle edge cases and improve end-user messaging.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
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