Summary
Adam Shake is a Senior Manager of Site Reliability Engineering with 12 years of experience building resilient web applications, automation, and manufacturing IT platforms, currently leading SRE at Rivian. He combines hands-on web/frontend roots with strategic leadership—scaling teams, improving operational rigor, and accelerating delivery across both product and factory environments. Previously a Director of SRE at MediaMath and a long-tenured technologist at COUNTRY Financial, he has a track record of turning developer-focused practices into enterprise-grade reliability. Obsessed with automation beyond work, he even applies his engineering chops to automating beer brewing, reflecting a practical maker mindset and appetite for applied systems design. Based in Normal, Illinois, Adam is known for building trusted teams that balance rapid innovation with production stability.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Illinois Wesleyan University
English