Summary
Adam Stern is a seasoned Director of Software Engineering with 12+ years driving DevOps, automation, and cloud-native architecture for enterprises including Walmart and VIZIO. He combines hands-on systems engineering—Linux, AWS, Docker, SaltStack/CloudFormation, and observability stacks—with full-stack development experience in Node.js, Python, PHP and .NET, enabling repeatable CI/CD and scalable multi-AZ deployments. As a hands-on leader and mentor he’s built and operationalized resilient pipelines, automated testing, and incident integrations (PagerDuty, Grafana, APM) while codifying processes and runbooks. His background spans founding and CTO roles through freelance consulting, giving him a rare blend of startup agility and large-scale operational rigor. Notably, he pairs deep infrastructure expertise with frequent code-level involvement, from Dockerfile and Lambda scripts to API design and database schema.
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Binghamton University
Monroe-Woodbury High School