Summary
Adam Poncy is a software quality leader with 11 years of hands-on experience building and scaling quality practices across fintech, identity, and bioinformatics platforms from Austin, Texas. He currently leads software quality for Natera’s Scientific Computing Platform, driving test strategy and frameworks for Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, and variant analysis pipelines. Previously he established a Lean/Agile Quality Management Office at Flexera that improved delivery predictability, on-call recovery, and data quality through measurement and cross-functional process design. Adam pairs deep SDET roots—automating at scale with Java, Python, Appium, Terraform and CI/CD—with program-level stewardship, having hired and led multi-site teams and spun up offshore capability. Known for translating complex technical domains into measurable quality outcomes, he also presents emerging topics like property-based testing and JIT optimizations to engineering audiences. His background in computer science, an MBA in progress, and early psychology training give him a pragmatic, people-focused approach to engineering change.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Texas State University
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Psychology, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Psychology at University of North Texas
Master of Science - MS, Biomedical Informatics, Health Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS, Biomedical Informatics, Health Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at UTHealth Houston