Adam Thomason
Principal Software Architect at Fastly
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Thomason is a Principal Software Architect with 17 years of experience designing and shipping distributed systems at internet scale from Portland, Oregon. He leads architecture and implementation across worldwide edge infrastructure at Fastly, including a logging pipeline that delivers over 2M logs/sec with 1s latency and an automated TLS distribution system that has provisioned 100,000+ certificates. Comfortable moving teams from prototype to production, he championed Go adoption for edge and control-plane services and advised on launching Fastly’s image optimization offering. His background spans monolithic supercomputers and biophysics simulation to cloud-native web infrastructure, bringing a scientist’s rigor to operational reliability. Adam combines hands-on engineering with pragmatic technical leadership, regularly balancing low-latency performance, global scale, and operational simplicity.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyBiophysics, Biophysics at University of California, San Francisco
Github Skills (47)
programming-language10
perl10
go10
golang10
syslog10
docker9
image-resizing9
anyevent9
cli8
finite-state-automata8
dfa8
lex8
fastly8
lexical-analysis8
json-api8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
athomason/vipaccess-go
Nov 2018 - Aug 2021
Go port of python-vipaccess
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 9 months
gopython
athomason/Log-Syslog-Fast
Oct 2008 - Dec 2019
Perl extension for sending syslog messages with minimal CPU overhead.
Contributions:210 commits, 5 PRs, 11 pushes in 11 years 3 months
perlsyslog
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