Adam Mccrea
Founder & Developer at Judoscale
Galena, Ohio, United States
Summary
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SeniorAdam Mccrea is a founder and developer with 17 years of hands-on experience building scalable web applications and cost-optimizing cloud infrastructure. He founded Judoscale after creating Rails Autoscale to stop wasteful PaaS spending, growing it into a cross-platform SaaS that supports Heroku, Render, Railway, Fly.io and Amazon ECS and multiple languages. Comfortable across the stack, Adam still codes in Ruby (since 2007) and has contributed UI and metrics improvements to high-profile open-source projects like Sidekiq, including new chart types, dark mode, and i18n refinements. His background includes senior engineering roles at YNAB, Orange Barrel Media, and EdgeCase, and he blends product instincts with deep technical execution. Based in Galena, Ohio, he’s the kind of independent builder who prefers shipping features (or taking an unapologetic nap) to endless meetings. Beyond product work, he brings a practical, metrics-driven approach to reducing cost and downtime for cloud-native apps.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
javascript10
web-development10
chartjs10
ruby10
front-end-development9
heroku9
user-interface9
puma6
heroku-cli6
rails-api6
nodejs6
hosting6
postgresql6
dyno6
cycle6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sidekiq/sidekiq
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 9 commits, 13 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on enhancing the metrics UI of the Sidekiq dashboard by rebuilding charts using Chart.js. They added new chart types, including a histogram and bubble chart, to visualize job-specific metrics. They also implemented improvements for dark mode, internationalization of labels, and added features like a cursor that follows the tooltip. The user also refactored queries and made several UI tweaks to improve the overall user experience and data representation.
background-processingrubysidekiqbackground-jobsjobs
judoscale/judoscale-node
Jul 2022 - Jun 2026
Official Node.js adapter for Judoscale—advanced autoscaling for Heroku, AWS, and most other cloud hosting platforms.
Contributions:7 reviews, 57 PRs, 75 pushes in 3 years 11 months
autoscalingawscloud-hostingherokunodejs
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