Adam Wiggins
Organizer at Local-First Conf
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Wiggins is a seasoned software founder and engineering leader with 18 years building developer platforms, most notably as a Heroku cofounder and the author of the influential Twelve-Factor App methodology. Based in Berlin, he now focuses on tooling and computing for creators through his work at the Ink & Switch research lab and as an organizer of the Local-First Conf. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing to open-source projects from schedulers like Clockwork to data import/export tooling—with product and organizational leadership as a serial founder and former CEO. His background spans low-level programming in game and systems shops to shaping modern cloud-native practices, giving him rare perspective across infrastructure, UX, and community. Notably, his design-driven approach to developer experience has repeatedly moved research ideas into practical, broadly adopted tooling.
18 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at UCSD
Github Skills (25)
api-rest10
algorithms10
sequel10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
css10
scheduler10
ruby10
scheduling10
sinatra10
sched10
database-design10
html10
rest-api10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
adamwiggins/clockwork
May 2010 - Nov 2016
A scheduler process to replace cron
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 1 push in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily worked on enhancing the `clockwork` project, a scheduler, by implementing new features and improving the code. Their contributions included adding support for time units (seconds, minutes, hours, days), specifying time for daily events, and refactoring the code by renaming classes and methods. Further improvements involve adding a logging system for better monitoring and debugging, as well as setting up unit tests to ensure the project's reliability.
cron
adamwiggins/12factor
Jun 2011 - Jan 2013
Official fork now at: https://github.com/heroku/12factor
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:75 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on enhancing the visual presentation of the "12factor" project's website. They implemented CSS styling to improve the aesthetics, including adjustments to font sizes, spacing, and layout. Furthermore, the user added a header with a link to the twelve-factor app home page, and styled the navigation elements and footer content.
12-factorheroku
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