AdamĀ Zionts
Head Of Customer Engineering at Longeye
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Zionts is a Head of Customer Engineering and seasoned distributed systems leader with 8+ years building resilient, observable cloud services and GraphQL platforms from startup to enterprise scale. He blends hands-on engineering (notably contributions to the popular apollographql/apollo-server) with people-first management, coaching new managers and growing teams that own on-call rigor and operational excellence. Adam has repeatedly transformed infrastructure teams into customer-facing product teams, launching analytics and remote-configuration features while driving cost and uptime improvements. He co-founded a consumer fintech startup and still favors the fast feedback loops and direct impact of early-stage product work. Data-driven and systems-minded, he prioritizes fault tolerance, observability, and pragmatic design that matches business needs. Based in San Francisco with an MIT background in math and computer science, he pairs technical depth with a talent for creating environments where engineers can thrive.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelorās Degree Mathematics with Computer Science Business, Bachelorās Degree Mathematics with Computer Science Business at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCypress Bay High School
Spanish, English
Github Skills (10)
graphql10
nodejs10
javascript10
apollo-server10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
expressjs9
hapi8
graphql-schema8
koa8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
apollographql/apollo-server
Jul 2018 - Jun 2020
š Ā Spec-compliant and production ready JavaScript GraphQL server that lets you develop in a schema-first way. Built for Express, Connect, Hapi, Koa, and more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 13 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Adam focused on refactoring and enhancing the Apollo Server core, specifically related to GraphQL Playground configuration and options. They modified the server's handling of the `playground` feature, including the introduction of more flexible options, partial settings, and boolean configurations. Additionally, they made changes to support the safe-listing dry run feature and adjusted error reporting mechanisms within the Apollo Engine reporting. Their work involved integration with various server environments, like Express and Micro, as well as contributing to the documentation.
production-readyexpresshapijsgraphql-serverproduction
apollographql/apollo-schema-reporting-preview-docs
May 2020 - May 2020
Pre-release documentation for the protocol and implementation of schema reporting from GraphQL servers.
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 comments in 4 days
reportingapollographqlpre-releasegraphql-toolsnexus
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