Adam Sunderland
Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Zoo
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Sunderland is a Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating reliable web platforms, currently leading infrastructure at Zoo after a multi-year SRE progression at Zapier. He combines deep Ruby on Rails application development and freelance consulting experience with strong cloud and Linux ops skills—AWS, Heroku, PostgreSQL/MySQL—and a track record of moving Rails apps from prototype to production. Adam focuses on reliability and scalability across distributed systems, bringing hands-on expertise in automation and site reliability engineering alongside traditional web development. He’s driven by a mission to rethink how Americans pay for college, blending product ambition with technical delivery. Based in Grand Rapids, he pairs enterprise-grade SRE practices with startup pragmatism and a history of shipping customer-facing features and core infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Sciences and Technology, International Studies, BS, Information Sciences and Technology, International Studies at Penn State University
Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
524reputation
23kreached
7answers
5questions
Github Skills (200)
postgresql10
gcp10
scheduling10
svg10
dns10
mesos10
dns-record10
charts10
external-dns10
rust10
route5310
kubernetes10
sqlite10
electron10
mysql10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
wearemolecule/damage
Feb 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:75 commits, 10 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 7 months
financialfixexchangefinancial-informationinformation-exchange
wearemolecule/kube-scheduler
May 2016 - Jul 2017
A kubernetes utility to run docker images on a cron schedule
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 2 months
crondocker-imagekubernetes
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