Adam Shih
Software Engineer at Pluralsight
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Shih is a software engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 12 years of experience building reliable systems across databases and big-data platforms. He has contributed to notable open-source work on PouchDB—implementing sync and alternative LevelDB backends—demonstrating depth in replication and storage internals. His recent roles span real-time health systems at Oracle and big-data infrastructure at Zoom, reflecting comfort with low-latency, production-grade services. A lifelong tinkerer who enjoys reverse-engineering how things work, he pairs curiosity with practical skills sharpened through tutoring and formal CS study at Portland State. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who surfaces non-obvious tradeoffs in system design.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Portland State University
Github Skills (11)
databases10
couchdb10
javascript10
pouchdb10
database-administration10
replication10
admin10
database10
apidoc9
leveldb9
api9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
apache/pouchdb
Feb 2014 - May 2014
:kangaroo: - PouchDB is a pocket-sized database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:9 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on enhancing the PouchDB database library. Their contributions included implementing the `api.sync` and `sync` functionalities, which are crucial for data replication and synchronization. They also added support for alternative LevelDB backends and made updates to references to the sync method. This involved modifications to core files such as `lib/replicate.js`, `lib/adapter.js`, and `lib/index.js`.
databasepouchdbjavascriptcouchdb
No9/localstorage-down
Mar 2014 - May 2014
localstorage implementation of leveldown
Contributions:13 commits in 1 month
leveldownlocalstorage
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