Adam Snyder
Principal Engineer at k-ID
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Snyder is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience building tooling and backend services for the gaming industry, currently leading engineering at a stealth-mode startup in Seattle. He blends a creative Northwestern education in CS, Radio/TV/Film and Sound Design with deep hands-on practice in SRE and platform engineering from a multi-year tenure at Electronic Arts. Adam is a pragmatic problem-solver who focuses on developer tooling, reliability and safety—often shipping internal SRE systems and open-source Go contributions that improve real-world workflows. His GitHub work includes meaningful enhancements to widely used projects like helm-docs and Terraform/GitLab integrations, demonstrating an attention to cross-platform reliability, performance benchmarking, and Terraform provider features. Colleagues describe him as someone who enjoys the intersection of art and technology, applying that sensibility to make games and the teams that build them more rewarding and resilient.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Radio / TV / Film Computer Science and Sound Design, Bachelor of Science (BS) Radio / TV / Film Computer Science and Sound Design at Northwestern University
English, French
Github Skills (17)
gitlab-api10
apidoc10
testing10
terraform10
terraformer10
go10
api10
sdk10
helm10
webhooks9
command-line-interface9
command-line9
cli9
documentation8
devops8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
gitlabhq/terraform-provider-gitlab
Jul 2020 - May 2022
Terraform GitLab Provider
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:514 reviews, 199 commits, 209 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the Terraform GitLab provider by implementing new features and addressing compatibility issues. They added a `code_owner_approval_required` argument to the `gitlab_branch_protection` resource, expanding its functionality. Further contributions involved fixing code, resolving compatibility problems, and improving error messages. Their work shows proficiency in Go and Terraform, with a focus on enhancing the provider's features and usability.
terraform-providerprovidergitlabterraform
norwoodj/helm-docs
Oct 2021 - Mar 2022
A tool for automatically generating markdown documentation for helm charts
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Adam significantly contributed to the `helm-docs` project by implementing new features and addressing existing bugs. They introduced a benchmark test, enhancing the project's performance evaluation capabilities. The user added a new CLI flag for documenting dependency values and made several code improvements, including cross-platform compatibility fixes and addressing sorting bugs. The commits demonstrate a solid understanding of the project's core functionality and commitment to improving its usability and reliability.
chartshelmhelm-chartskubernetesmarkdown
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