Adam Lock
Principal Software Engineer at Pilz
Ireland
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SeniorAdam Lock is a Principal Software Engineer based in Ireland with over 20 years of cross-domain experience and a decade-plus in senior/architect roles delivering embedded, industrial automation, and financial systems. He architects and implements full-stack solutions in C/C++, Java, Typescript/JavaScript, Rust and cloud-native platforms (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes), often bridging low-level device protocols like OPC UA and Modbus with modern web and visualization tooling. At Pilz he builds visualization and development tools for industrial devices, combining real-time concerns with user-facing web stacks and CI/CD automation. His background includes lead roles in set-top box software, trading systems at Fidelity, and browser embedding work at AOL, reflecting a strong blend of systems-level and application-level craftsmanship. Known for pragmatic engineering and tooling fluency, he frequently moves between languages and runtimes to match performance, observability, and deployment needs. Quietly, his career shows a pattern of solving integration challenges where legacy protocols meet contemporary cloud and UI ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (86)
cargo10
node-http10
energy10
specification10
embedded10
monitoring10
clion10
node-opcua10
compiler10
rust10
opc-ua10
bacnet10
opc10
iot10
intellij10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
locka99/cpp-to-rust-book
Oct 2016 - Apr 2022
Contributions:262 commits, 9 PRs, 169 pushes in 5 years 7 months
locka99/opcua
Jan 2017 - Jan 2023
A client and server implementation of the OPC UA specification written in Rust
Contributions:15 reviews, 2195 commits, 131 PRs in 6 years 1 month
iec-62541opcuarustspecificationopc-ua
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