Adam Tait
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Tait is a software engineer and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building scalable web, mobile, distributed asynchronous, and ML-enabled systems, currently at Google after research work at Meta on AI-assisted developer productivity. He blends hands-on polyglot development with architecture-first thinking, devops ownership, frequent refactoring, and a preference for minimal third-party dependencies. As former CTO of two startups and a senior manager/principal engineer at Walmart Global Tech, he has shipped production mobile apps, large-scale streaming systems for transactional data, and led teams end-to-end. His research contributions include papers on multi-line AI-assisted code authoring and agentic program repair, reflecting a rare mix of applied ML research and shipping robust production systems. Based in San Francisco and trained at the University of Waterloo, he’s known for coaching engineers and designing pragmatic, high-quality systems that favor clarity and maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Software Engineering, BSE Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
canadian, French
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Github Skills (40)
type-declarations10
keybase9
client-library8
command-line-tool8
cli8
chat8
cross-language8
administration8
java8
iphone7
pgp7
env7
end-to-end-encryption7
binaries7
homebrew7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
adamtait/ergodox-configuration
Jul 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:2 commits, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
adamtait/dotfiles
Nov 2018 - Aug 2022
Contributions:137 commits, 3 PRs, 202 pushes in 3 years 10 months
configurationconfigsconfigdotfilesenv
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