Adam Surak
Senior Director Of Engineering at Tools for Humanity
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolAdam Surak is a seasoned infrastructure and security leader with over two decades in technology and a proven record scaling systems to serve hundreds of millions of users while cutting costs by tens of millions of dollars. Currently Senior Director of Engineering at Tools for Humanity (Worldcoin), he builds small, autonomous teams that deliver high-availability platforms, incident response excellence, and faster product delivery. Previously he led infrastructure and security at Algolia and BeReal, driving massive traffic scalability (multi-Tbit/s media distribution), compliance programs, and dramatic cost and incident reductions. An educator and early researcher in networking, Adam combines hands-on engineering, startup founding experience, and mentorship—he’s also an angel investor focused on infrastructure and security—bringing a pragmatic, data-driven approach to building replaceable, reliable teams.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master Information technology, Master Information technology at VSB - Technical University of OstravaComputer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Tampere UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Gymnázium Mikuláše Koperníka Bílovec
English, French, Czech, Slovak
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Github Skills (96)
webextension10
fingerprinting10
api-client9
geo-search9
faceted-search9
terraform9
go-api9
php-api9
terraform-provider9
chrome-extension9
aws9
pagerduty8
crypto8
javascript8
algolia8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
asurak/okta-auth-proxy
Jan 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 2 years 11 months
proxyauthenticationoktaoauth2auth-proxy
asurak/assignment_example_ros_pkg
Sep 2024 - Sep 2024
Example package (ROS-dependent) for the assignment to set up CI/CD pipelines
Contributions:1 PR, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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