Adam Ross
Staff Developer Relations Engineer
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Ross is a Staff Developer Relations Engineer at Google with 15 years of experience architecting cloud-native, decoupled systems and accelerating engineering teams. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps work with developer experience strategy, having improved and maintained Google Cloud language samples across PHP, Node.js, Python, and Go and contributed to widely used projects like Knative docs. A pragmatic advocate for simple, evolvable solutions, he focuses on automation, open source collaboration, and reducing operational overhead via cloud infrastructure. Adam has led engineering teams, mentored developers, and driven cross-team initiatives in developer tools, CI/CD, and API strategy at both agency and product companies. He’s equally comfortable updating a hello-world sample to respect environment conventions as he is designing scalable platform architectures for enterprise clients. Based in California, he pairs deep implementation experience with a knack for making complex systems understandable and repeatable.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, History, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, History at UC Santa Barbara
Stackoverflow
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drupal
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google-cloud-platform
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Github Skills (55)
drupal10
kubernetes10
google-cloud-platform10
docker10
python10
testing10
sample-size10
dockers10
gcp10
sample-rate10
google-cloud-run10
php10
go10
google-cloud10
sample-data10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/golang-samples
Aug 2018 - Jul 2022
Sample apps and code written for Google Cloud in the Go programming language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:172 reviews, 70 commits, 143 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Adam contributed to the `golang-samples` repository by adding and modifying Go code snippets for Google Cloud services. The contributions include the implementation of tasks pull queue samples using the Cloud Tasks API. The user also worked on App Engine samples, including hello world and Cloud SQL integration, as well as Cloud Run samples, demonstrating the user's proficiency in deploying and managing applications on Google Cloud platforms. The code changes involve creating and handling tasks, as well as configuring and testing App Engine and Cloud Run applications.
golangappenginesample-appsgoogle-cloudgoogle-appengine
knative/docs
Oct 2018 - Apr 2020
User documentation for Knative components.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:33 commits, 34 PRs, 132 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on ensuring the Knative documentation samples, specifically the "hello world" examples, properly respect the `PORT` environment variable across multiple languages. They modified various `app.js`, `index.php`, `Program.cs`, `Main.hs`, `helloworld.go`, and `main.rs` files. Furthermore, the user contributed to aligning the `grpc-ping-go` sample with Knative best practices and updated the `helloworld-go` sample to Go modules. They also updated the `helloworld-shell` sample to utilize Go modules.
paasuser-documentationserverlessknativeistio
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