Adam Ross
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Ross is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, production distributed systems, currently contributing to AWS MediaPackage in Boulder, Colorado. He has a strong track record at Comcast where he redesigned critical video packagers to cut CPU and memory use dramatically, improved availability by an order of magnitude, and scaled optimizations across thousands of machines. Adam brings deep systems and backend expertise—Docker, Kubernetes, streaming MPEG2-TS pipelines, and S3/NFS architectures—paired with hands-on leadership mentoring small teams. He is an active open-source contributor to Trickster, improving caching, progressive collapse forwarding, and IO streaming in a popular time-series cache accelerator. Passionate about learning (per his GitHub bio), he blends pragmatic performance engineering with measurable operational and cost savings.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (9)
golang10
performance-monitor10
go10
performance-analysis10
testing10
caching9
reverse-proxy9
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
trickstercache/trickster
Mar 2018 - Feb 2020
Open Source HTTP Reverse Proxy Cache and Time Series Dashboard Accelerator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 reviews, 30 commits, 37 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the back-end logic and caching mechanisms of the Trickster project. Their work involved modifying the configuration loading process, adding options and functionality for progressive collapsed forwarding, and implementing io streaming within the object proxy cache. They also addressed issues related to waitgroup leaks and enhanced the testing coverage for the progressive collapse forwarder.
proxyload-balancingreverse-proxyprometheusdashboard
LimitlessEarth/CSCI4576
Sep 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:297 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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