Adam Reeve
Staff Software Engineer at Stripe
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Reeve is a Staff Software Engineer and distributed systems architect based in Seattle with two decades of experience building secure, scalable systems across finance, media, and security domains. Currently at Stripe, he blends hands‑on engineering in Java/Scala/C#/Obj‑C with architectural leadership, having led security and data initiatives at Forcepoint, RedOwl, Tumblr, and Goldman Sachs. He emphasizes quality execution—rigorous peer review, automated builds, and change management—while bringing deep expertise in cryptography, secure design, and behavioral fraud detection. An active open-source contributor, his backend work on Tumblr’s Colossus I/O and microservice library improved reliability around timeouts and connection shutdowns. Colleagues describe him as a mentor who cultivates technical excellence and delivers production‑grade solutions that stand up to adversarial threats.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Master of Engineering (MEng) at Imperial College London
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Github Skills (14)
scala10
microservices-application10
microservices10
controller10
concurrency9
testing8
memory-management6
heap-memory6
recursion6
introspection6
hash6
javabeans6
inheritance6
java6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tumblr/colossus
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
I/O and Microservice library for Scala
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 days
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the backend of the project, focusing on improving the Colossus I/O and Microservice library. Their work included fixing typos, adding message timeout support to the OutputController, and implementing connection shutdown mechanisms when in-flight requests time out. These changes involved modifying core components like ServiceClient, ServiceServer, and OutputController to enhance reliability and functionality.
sbt-pluginplayframeworkscalasbtmicroservice
reeve/gs-aws-pricing-helper
Dec 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:5 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
googleamazonaws-resourcesaws-pricinggoogle-spreadsheet
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