Adam Walker
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Walker is a frontend software engineer with nine years of experience, currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI after driving optimized checkout experiences at Stripe. He helped build the Express Checkout Element and scaled Link to hundreds of thousands of merchants, blending user-focused UI work with payments systems at scale. Comfortable across the stack, he has also contributed backend features to the World Cube Association site using Ruby on Rails and testing frameworks, reflecting practical full-stack fluency. A Harvey Mudd CS graduate based in San Francisco, Adam pairs product-minded engineering with careful attention to reliability and developer ergonomics. Outside of work he’s deeply embedded in the cubing community—organizing large WCA competitions and mentoring new organizers—a leadership track that mirrors his collaborative approach to engineering.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Harvey Mudd CollegeAdvanced Technologies Academy
Github Skills (10)
tournament10
rails10
database-design10
ruby-on-rails10
testing9
rspec9
postgresql8
wcag7
cubing6
speedup6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
thewca/worldcubeassociation.org
Jan 2018 - Aug 2019
All of the code that runs on worldcubeassociation.org
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 8 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the back-end of the World Cube Association website, focusing on implementing and modifying features related to competition management. Their work involved adding and removing events for confirmed competitions, updating event rounds, and modifying delegate reports, which required changes to the database schema. The commits demonstrate familiarity with Ruby on Rails and related testing frameworks, including RSpec and FactoryBot.
worldcubeassociationrunscubingspeedcubingwca
Rubiks-boy/competition-scheduler
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Scheduler for WCA Rubik's cube competitions
Contributions:110 commits, 34 PRs, 180 pushes in 11 days
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