Summary
Adam Panzer is a Staff Engineer based in San Francisco with 14 years building secure, scalable infrastructure and developer tooling that prioritize deploy safety—partial/isolated deploys, feature flags, gradual rollouts, and fast rollbacks. He’s driven platform and security improvements across startups and mid-size teams, from founding infrastructure at Bunny to migrating critical services and access controls at PagerDuty, Optimizely, and Vitally. Adam combines hands-on cluster and CI/CD engineering (k3s GPU clusters, EKS, Terraform, Ansible, Buildkite) with mentoring and company-wide training to make risky systems safe to change. He treats deployability as a security enabler—reducing attack surface by enabling rapid, confident modernization and rollback. Known for pragmatic migrations (SSO, secrets management, centralized monitoring) and introducing canary processes where none existed, he excels at turning operational pain points into repeatable, low-friction workflows.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Biotechnology, BS, Biotechnology at University of California, Davis
Drew College Prep