Adam Tackett
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Tackett is a Software Development Engineer at AWS with hands-on OpenSearch experience and a background that blends disciplined military leadership with applied software engineering. He transitioned from six years as a Navy behavioral health leader—where he managed programs, supervised teams, and maintained large-scale patient records—to software through internships on AWS OpenSearch and a BS in Computer Science and Game Design from DigiPen. Adam brings a measured, patient-centered approach to problem solving, proven by improving team performance and operational processes under pressure. At AWS he applies that rigor to building reliable search and analytics features while continuing to deepen his cloud and distributed-systems expertise. Known for meticulous record-keeping and training others, he often surfaces edge cases and process improvements before they become issues. Based in Redmond, he pairs a service-oriented mindset with a growing technical portfolio focused on search and AWS ecosystems.
3 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Game Design, Computer Programming, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Game Design, Computer Programming at DigiPen Institute of TechnologyAssociate of Science - AS, Applied Science, 3.78, Associate of Science - AS, Applied Science, 3.78 at Thomas Edison State University
Github Skills (25)
opensearch10
ppl10
opensearch-dashboards10
visualize10
analytics10
explore10
relevance9
observability9
visualization9
dashboard9
monitoring9
meilisearch9
sql7
workbench6
search-engine6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TackAdam/OpenSearch-Dashboards
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
📊 Open source visualization dashboards for OpenSearch.
Contributions:47 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
TackAdam/dashboards-observability
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Visualize and explore your logs, traces and metrics data in OpenSearch Dashboards
Contributions:3 reviews, 5 PRs, 547 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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