Adam Papai
Principal Operations Engineer & Tech Lead
Budapest, Hungary
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Top SchoolAdam Papai is a Principal Operations Engineer and Tech Lead with 13 years of hands-on experience designing and operating secure, cloud-native infrastructure across AWS and GCP. At CloudBees he has led migrations, built identity and code-signing services (HSM-backed EV signing), and mentored senior engineers while driving DevOps and automation at scale. His engineering roots span low-level systems and tooling—contributing to open-source projects like terraforming and the Will bot—reflecting a blend of backend development and operational rigor. He routinely implements Vault-based PKI, SSH certificate systems, and self-service platforms, and has deep experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and hybrid network connectivity. Based in Budapest and a former CTO and OSS committer, he pairs pragmatic architecture with strong documentation and on-call discipline. Outside work he’s a home barista, hinting at a methodical, detail-oriented approach to both craft and engineering.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Information Technology at Eötvös Loránd UniversityIT Systems Engineer Computer Software Engineering, IT Systems Engineer Computer Software Engineering at ATHENE Information Technology Technical College
Hungarian, English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
256reputation
13kreached
7answers
2questions
Github Skills (27)
python10
apidoc10
testing10
acl10
terraform10
ruby10
terraformer10
access-control-list10
api10
aws10
http-request10
access-control10
google-maps-api10
route539
security9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
skoczen/will
Jan 2015 - Oct 2017
Will is a simple, beautiful-to-code bot for slack, hipchat, and a whole lot more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:54 commits, 28 PRs, 55 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the Will bot's backend, modifying plugins and core functionalities. They refactored and updated the world time plugin to use the Google Maps API, addressing the deprecation of the previous API. They also introduced a flexible access control list (ACL) feature and refactored the pagerduty integration to handle more scenarios, including reassigning incidents. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the codebase, including removing unused imports and updating the project's version information.
hipchatslack
dtan4/terraforming
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Export existing AWS resources to Terraform style (tf, tfstate) / No longer actively maintained
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to fixing and improving the `terraforming` project, focusing on exporting AWS resources to Terraform. Their work involved addressing inconsistencies in generating `tfstate` files, particularly for `route53_record` and `security_group` resources. They also modified the tests to align with the updated logic and improved the naming convention for security groups.
awsterraformtfstateruby-gem
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