Adam Roberts
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Winchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAdam Roberts is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM with 11 years of experience building cloud-native integration and data platforms, currently focused on the IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration offering. He has deep hands-on expertise across distributed systems, stream processing (Flink, Kafka), CI/CD (Tekton, Jenkins X), and performance tuning for big-data engines like Apache Spark, including JVM and GPU-accelerated Java work. As an early core contributor to AdoptOpenJDK and a frequent OSS contributor and speaker, he blends production-grade engineering with advocacy for open tooling and standards. Adam also serves as a technical SME for promotion cases, demonstrating leadership beyond coding in mentoring and technical assessment. Based in Winchester, UK, he combines a pragmatic systems mindset with a track record of improving reliability and installability for complex cloud environments.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Software Development, Bachelor of Science - BS Software Development at The University of Huddersfield
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Github Skills (33)
kubernetes10
spark10
dashboard10
performance-analytics10
performance-monitor10
jvm10
testing10
tekton10
big-data10
virtual-machine10
cicd10
java10
performance-measurement10
scala10
javas10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
tektoncd/dashboard
Apr 2019 - Jul 2020
A dashboard for Tekton!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 1 review, 100 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Adam contributed to the Tekton Dashboard project by addressing linting issues and log messages, suggesting a focus on code quality and maintainability. Their work included modifications to testing procedures, specifically within the credential endpoint testing, indicating involvement in the backend logic and testing infrastructure. Further contributions involve implementing and testing routes, indicating a role in designing and building the API endpoints. They also enhanced the UI by adding a rebuild button for PipelineRuns.
pythonpipelinetektondashboardui
apache/spark
Jun 2015 - Feb 2017
Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
Role in this project:Backend & Performance Engineer
Backend & Performance EngineerContributions:21 PRs, 82 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on performance optimization and bug fixes related to IBM Java compatibility within the Apache Spark codebase. Their contributions include improvements to the `RDDOperationScope` for handling IBM Java stack traces, specifying stack size for Java tests, and optimizing the `AppendOnlyMap` implementation for improved throughput. They also updated dependencies like Snappy and Netty, and addressed test flakiness.
analyticspythondata-processingsqlapache
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