Adam Sax
Staff Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Portland, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Sax is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native video and collaboration systems, currently shaping platform reliability and live media at Reddit from Portland, Maine. He has led end-to-end migrations to Kubernetes, designed real-time live video production workflows and high-throughput transcoding systems, and earned a New York Times Publisher’s Award for innovation in live video. Comfortable moving between architecture and hands-on delivery, he has a history of turning monoliths into microservices, creating developer tooling and team practices, and mentoring engineers. His background in art & technology and early work on interactive public experiences and film production tools gives him a practical, multidisciplinary approach to product-driven engineering.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, art & technology, Bachelor of Arts - BA, art & technology at Hampshire College
Github Skills (75)
proxy10
javascript10
html10
nodejs10
css10
chrome10
golang9
transcoding9
grpc9
electron9
client-library8
js8
raspberry-pi-os8
api8
transcription8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
adamthesax/grpc-proxy
May 2022 - Jun 2023
gRPC proxy is a Go reverse proxy that allows for rich routing of gRPC calls with minimum overhead.
Contributions:5 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
gogrpcproxyreverse-proxy
adamthesax/speedtest2influx
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:25 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
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