Adam Ziegler
Director, IT Applications
Brea, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Ziegler is a hands-on technology leader with over two decades of experience and more than ten years in people leadership, currently serving as Director of IT Applications at Nationwide Pet where he owns data analytics and online engagement for the world’s largest pet insurer. He excels at turning “big, messy” problems into scalable solutions, with a track record of driving QA and release improvements that cut defects and introduced automation across claims and enterprise systems. Adam blends technical depth—he taught himself to code at 14 and still writes code daily, including open-source contributions improving Minecraft rendering in the Fabric project—with strategic accountability for IT financials, SaaS migrations, and resource planning in complex matrixed organizations. A natural coach, he measures success by the development of others, having moved dozens of hires into leadership roles. His background pairs an MBA with early technical roles from systems engineering to application delivery, giving him rare fluency across business, data, and engineering domains.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (6)
javas10
minecraft10
fabric10
render10
java10
rendering10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
FabricMC/fabric
May 2019 - Sep 2021
Essential hooks for modding with Fabric.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 reviews, 56 commits, 63 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the Fabric Renderer Indigo module, fixing bugs and improving the rendering of Minecraft blocks. They addressed issues related to incorrect lighting, specifically fixing problems with flat and smooth lighting on various quad configurations. The user also implemented features such as MaterialFinder enhancements and improved the handling of transparency, ensuring correct visual representation of different block types.
minecraftfabricessentialjavafabricmc
grondag/frex
Mar 2019 - Sep 2021
Fabric Render Extensions
Contributions:2 reviews, 209 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 7 months
renderminecraftquiltfabricextensions
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