Adam Rensel
Principle Consultant at Hemlock Labs
Petoskey, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Rensel is a seasoned Principal Consultant and founder with 15 years building resilient cloud-native systems and bridging software development with infrastructure operations. He architects on AWS, GCP, and Azure, automates delivery with Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD, and guides teams through security and SOC 2 compliance readiness. His background spans product-focused platform engineering—shipping zero-downtime SMS APIs for healthcare at Artera—to full-stack and DevOps work at GitHub, where he managed Azure storage and Kubernetes deployments for education.github.com. An active contributor to backend and DevOps efforts in well-known community projects like the GitHub Graduation yearbook and Atom’s tree-view, he combines hands-on coding, testing discipline, and mentoring to turn complex, regulated requirements into auditable, production systems. Based in Petoskey, Michigan, he brings practical operational experience informed by early work securing sandboxed learning environments and integrating observability into mission-critical pipelines.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
WDD Web Design and Development, WDD Web Design and Development at Full Sail UniversityGRD Graphic Design, GRD Graphic Design at Ferris State University
Github Skills (19)
github-ci10
javascript10
coffeescript10
cicd10
github-api10
nodejs10
githubaction-workflow10
testing9
back-end-development9
filesystem9
atom-editor9
caching9
apidoc9
file-operations9
api9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
github-education-resources/GitHubGraduation-2021
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:160 commits, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 13 days
Contributions summary:Adam contributed to setting up and configuring the backend infrastructure for the GitHub Graduation project. Their commits reveal the implementation of a Node.js-based application, including the use of `Octokit` for interacting with the GitHub API. The user also focused on building and automating CI/CD using Github Actions and incorporating the use of environment variables.
yearbookwalkjunejoingraduation
github-education-resources/GitHubGraduation-2022
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Join the GitHub Graduation Yearbook and "walk the stage" on June 11.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Adam focused on modifying the Airtable integration to accommodate the current year's graduation event. Their contributions involved updating the `airtable.js` and `index.js` files to reflect changes in data caching and user participation checks. The user also added functionality for fetching and caching data for the 2022 graduation year. Several commits were made to correct variables, improve code structure, and address minor errors.
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