Adam West
Vice President - Enterprise System Management at Morgan Stanley
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolAdam West is a Vice President in Enterprise System Management with 11 years of engineering experience building observability, metric visualization, and developer-focused tooling at scale. Based in Montreal, he blends hands-on Python development and DevOps expertise—having adapted libraries like python-twitter for Google App Engine—with leadership roles at Morgan Stanley overseeing metrics, logging, and tracing. His background spans avionics crew-pairing optimization, inflight entertainment systems, and tech-for-good programs, reflecting a knack for applying practical software to complex, real-world domains. Adam is obsessed with visualizing information—often prototyping browser and 3D visualizations and experimenting with AR, blockchain, and even 3D printing—bringing a designer’s sensibility from a film-production and information-studies education to system-level engineering.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalaureate of Fine Arts, Film Production, Baccalaureate of Fine Arts, Film Production at Concordia UniversityMaster of Education (MEd), Information Studies, Master of Education (MEd), Information Studies at McGill University
English, French
Stackoverflow
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18questions
Github Skills (15)
google-app-engine10
python10
http-request10
documentation9
api8
apidoc8
pep7
open-source6
countdown-timer6
timer6
countdown6
android6
adapter6
testing6
java6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
bear/python-twitter
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
A Python wrapper around the Twitter API.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on adapting the `python-twitter` library for use with Google App Engine. They implemented the necessary changes to utilize App Engine's URLFetch library and disabled caching due to compatibility issues. Furthermore, they created and updated documentation, including a README file to guide users on integrating the library with App Engine. Finally, they implemented PEP8 style fixes.
pythontwitter-api
IntegersOfK/Hoin-POS-58-80
Jun 2016 - Nov 2022
Drivers for the Hoin HOP-E801 point of sale thermal receipt printer with variable paper width 58 or 80 millimeters.
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 6 years 6 months
driver
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