Adam Robinson
Solution Architect Senior at University of Michigan Information and Technology Services
Grand Blanc, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Robinson is a seasoned Solution Architect with 13 years of hands-on experience designing and automating virtualization, Linux/UNIX, and storage systems for large university environments. Currently leading virtualization and cloud infrastructure at the University of Michigan, he has a track record of building Terraform and Ansible automation, creating custom Terraform providers, and producing reproducible image builds used across VMware, GCP, and Azure. Practical and budget-minded from earlier K–12 work, he excels at squeezing value from constrained resources and translating operational needs into repeatable deployment pipelines. An active contributor to infrastructure tooling, his work on Packer and VMware automation demonstrates deep familiarity with Hyper-V, QEMU, PowerShell, and vSphere internals. He pairs advanced systems engineering with an M.S. in Computer Science and an MPA, combining technical depth with organizational and policy insight.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Public Administration - MPA, Master of Public Administration - MPA at University of Michigan-FlintGrand Blanc High School
Github Skills (19)
hyper-v10
scripting10
qemu10
vmware10
cicd10
go10
build-automation10
ansible10
powershell10
ansible-galaxy10
dockers9
docker9
aac9
infrastructure-as-code9
documentation9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/packer
Apr 2018 - Jul 2018
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 35 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the infrastructure and build process of Packer, focusing on improvements and additions related to Hyper-V and QEMU builders. They implemented support for new features like Fixed VHD format for Hyper-V and HVF accelerator for QEMU. Furthermore, they updated the documentation and examples for Ansible connection plugins.
vagrantplatformslinuxpackerdocker
lamw/vmware-scripts
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Various scripts for VMware based solutions
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 6 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Adam focused on developing and improving PowerShell scripts related to VMware infrastructure, particularly for verifying security patches and Meltdown acceleration settings. They enhanced an existing script to check for Intel CPU sighting, and also corrected typos in column names within output tables. Furthermore, they created a new PowerShell script to verify Meltdown acceleration for both ESXi hosts and virtual machines.
powershellvmwarehyper-v
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