Adam Wick
Principal Software Engineer at Fastly
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Wick is a Principal Software Engineer and systems-oriented technologist with 20+ years building low-level infrastructure through to distributed edge platforms, currently leading core Compute platform features at Fastly from Portland, OR. He combines deep expertise in operating systems, networking, cryptography, and language runtimes with a track record of shipping unusual, high-assurance systems—one of his notable early projects is the HaLVM unikernel and he’s implemented VPN and inline encryption work across Haskell, Rust, and C. A pragmatic engineering leader and former principal scientist who has secured and managed multi‑million dollar R&D programs, he also helped spin out Tangram Flex and drove product and certification efforts for clients. Beyond production systems, he contributes widely to open source (popular Haskell SHA code, a Rust ASN.1 library, and a PLT Racket GC) and applies systems-engineering tools like AADL/SysML to automate certification and make audit arguments more defensible.
19 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Indiana University BloomingtonThe University of Utah
English
Github Skills (9)
gnu-make10
build-system10
xen10
haskell10
ghc10
operating-system9
os-development9
c178
c118
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
GaloisInc/HaLVM
Nov 2010 - Dec 2018
The Haskell Lightweight Virtual Machine (HaLVM): GHC running on Xen
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:329 commits, 16 PRs, 100 pushes in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Adam appears to be focused on the development and maintenance of the Haskell Lightweight Virtual Machine (HaLVM) project, contributing significantly to the core system libraries. Their commits primarily involve modifications to the build system (mk/halvm.mk), and related GHC build configuration, including changes to the libraries. The user also worked on low-level system-level modifications within the Xen environment.
haskellghcvirtual-machinexen
acw/dot-configs
Apr 2015 - Mar 2025
Various UNIX-alike tool setup files
Contributions:9 PRs, 122 pushes, 10 branches in 10 years
unixlinuxbashshellsetup-tool
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