Adam Markowitz
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Soquel, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Markowitz is a performance-focused Staff Software Engineer with over 20 years of experience building scalable, low-latency systems and leading high-performing teams, currently driving engineering at Google. He blends deep hands-on expertise across JVM and dynamic languages (Kotlin, Java, Ruby/JRuby, JavaScript) with a track record of order-of-magnitude performance improvements, capacity planning, and production profiling. A former technical leader at Looker and CTO/architect for startups, he repeatedly reduced memory footprints, sped cache systems, and raised cache hit rates while improving test and build performance. Awarded Manager of the Year at a 300+ employee startup, he pairs strong communication and process rigor with pragmatic architecture choices. Outside engineering he pursues language design, open source, flamenco guitar and martial arts, reflecting a disciplined curiosity that informs his systems work.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at UCSCComputer Science and Music, Computer Science and Music at Cabrillo College
Stackoverflow
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winapi
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reflection
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Github Skills (60)
reflection10
datalog10
jvm10
winforms10
geospatial10
data-management10
java10
console-application10
sql10
query-language10
combobox10
data-visualization10
jruby10
database10
hadoop9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
amarkowitz/malloy
Oct 2022 - Jan 2024
Malloy is an experimental language for describing data relationships and transformations.
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
transformationsexperimental-language
looker/sequel
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 3 months
sequelmysqlsqlrubydatabase
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