Adam Scharf
Director Of Technology & Automation
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Scharf is a technology leader with a decade of experience building cloud-native systems and automation for financial services and consumer startups. Currently splitting time as Director of Technology & Automation and Co-Founder/CTO of an AI-powered travel platform, he blends hands-on engineering (Python, Go, AWS, Terraform, Docker) with product-led architecture and AI integration. At Capital One he led API and document-platform growth from 10M to 30M documents, hired and mentored early-career engineers, and ran cross-cutting CI/CD and infrastructure initiatives. He is comfortable shipping both backend services and front-end experiences, with a background that spans Java, JavaScript/Angular, and modern serverless patterns. Trained originally in biotechnology and later retrained in computer science, he brings a methodical, experimental mindset to solving complex systems problems. Based in Richmond, VA, he pairs startup founding grit with enterprise-scale delivery discipline.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Post-baccalaureate Certification, Computer Science, Post-baccalaureate Certification, Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Biotechnology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Biotechnology at James Madison University
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Github Skills (44)
aws10
terraform9
terraform-provider9
stem9
pyenv8
terraform-module8
infrastructure7
rspec7
configparser6
chef-infra6
vscode6
golang6
scale6
uitableview6
devops6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
adamscharf/eatbetterlifestyle
May 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 53 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
jekyll
adamscharf/dotfiles-original
Sep 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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