Summary
Adam Stegman is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building backend web systems, distributed services, and automated infrastructure across startups and large organizations. He specializes in Ruby/Rails, Go, JVM languages, core web technologies, and devops tooling, with recent work deploying services to AWS Lambda and Fargate using Terraform. Adam has led platform and developer-experience efforts—creating paved paths, internal builders, and productivity automation—and has operationalized complex systems like Cloud Foundry, Elasticsearch, and clinical integrations. He’s an evangelist for knowledge sharing, testable, documented releases, and deleting cruft wherever possible, and he often steps into people and organizational challenges to unblock teams. An active contributor to the Ruby ecosystem, he implemented a Devise SAML 2.0 strategy with integration tests to improve authentication UX. Based in Fort Worth, Texas, he favors agile and XP practices and brings a pragmatic focus on reliability and ops-aware engineering.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Kansas State University