Adam Reese
Senior Software Engineer at Fermyon
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Reese is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building elegant, pragmatic back-end and DevOps solutions for cloud-native and serverless platforms. Based in Los Angeles, he has driven production features and deployment improvements at Fermyon and Microsoft and contributed to high-profile open source projects like Helm and Brigade that power Kubernetes workflows. He specializes in Go and WebAssembly tooling, improving observability, CI/CD, and test quality while favoring simplicity over feature bloat. Adam’s work on Helm’s registry APIs and Spin’s TinyGo SDKs shows a blend of systems-level thinking and developer experience focus. Formerly transitioning from marketing and front-end roles into engineering, he brings an unusual mix of product empathy and operational rigor to distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
DeVry University
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
tinygo10
spin10
testing10
cicd10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
serverless10
webassembly10
redis9
unit-testing9
dockers9
apidoc9
docker9
http9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/golua
Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
A Lua 5.3 engine implemented in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:14 commits, 11 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on improving the project's test suite and code quality. They fixed an issue related to running tests from the project's root directory, ensuring proper test execution. Additionally, the user addressed code style issues by running `gofmt` across the codebase. They also implemented and tested unit tests for string functionalities.
golanglua
helm/helm
Jan 2016 - Aug 2021
The Kubernetes Package Manager
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 19 reviews, 970 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Helm project, focused on features related to managing and deploying packages within Kubernetes. Their work involved modifying existing code in various Go files and updating the project's deployment setup. They were involved in addressing and fixing API issues related to registries and adding functionality to support HTTP request logging within the service. These changes suggest a strong grasp of back-end development within a Kubernetes environment, including DevOps aspects related to configuration and deployment.
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