Summary
Adam Veldhousen is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native, high-performance distributed systems across AWS, container orchestration, and observability stacks. He has driven measurable business impact—reducing AWS spend, cutting front-end time-to-interactive for a React SPA from 10+ seconds to under 4, and building real-user monitoring that handles millions of sessions monthly. Comfortable in languages from Go and TypeScript to C#, Adam blends hands-on systems programming and infrastructure-as-code with team leadership, having managed cross-functional infrastructure, QA, and security teams. He’s also an entrepreneurial technologist who co-founded a software consultancy and keeps learning new domains like Rust, consensus algorithms, and blockchain development. Outside work he pursues amateur photography, meditation, and road trips with his wife and son, reflecting a pragmatic curiosity that informs both his engineering and leadership style.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSc CS) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSc CS) Computer Software Engineering at Neumont College of Computer Science
English