Adam Young
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Ampere
Arlington, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Young is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and leading systems- and application-level projects across cloud, virtualization, and high-performance computing domains. Currently at Ampere after senior roles at Red Hat and deep involvement as an OpenStack Keystone core developer, he blends hands-on engineering with gatekeeping and mentoring responsibilities. He focuses on delivering fast, tangible value through pragmatic agile practices while valuing well-crafted specifications, and has strong chops in Linux system development, distributed computing, and system integration. An active open-source contributor, he has improved testing and VM lifecycle reliability for the prominent kubevirt project, reflecting a practical commitment to quality in cloud-native virtualization. A West Point-trained computer scientist and former infantry officer, he brings disciplined leadership and a preference for rigorous, evidence-driven decision-making to complex technical challenges.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at United States Military Academy at West PointStoughton High School
Github Skills (6)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
virtualization10
testing10
libvirt8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kubevirt/kubevirt
Jan 2017 - Aug 2017
Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:53 PRs, 22 pushes, 109 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on improving the testing of the Kubernetes virtualization API and runtime. They implemented and modified functional tests to verify the status of virtual machines. The user updated VM status to "Succeeded" after initial VMSync and also refactored existing code to improve testability and readability. They also made code changes related to the VM lifecycle and state transitions within the virtualization environment, showing a focus on core functionality and testing.
kubernetesvirtual-machinevirtualizationlibvirtvms
admiyo/singlestatus
Oct 2020 - Sep 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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