Adrian Lienhard
VP, Infrastructure Engineering at Scribd
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdrian Lienhard is a seasoned software leader and VP of Infrastructure Engineering with 14 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, developer tools, and AI-enabled workflows for consumer scale. At Scribd he founded and scaled the infrastructure organization to 50+ engineers, led a zero-downtime cloud migration, and implemented FinOps practices that cut costs 10–15% annually while supporting 300M monthly users. His background at Google includes architecting GCP demand forecasting and anomaly detection systems tied to billion-dollar capacity planning, blending data-driven decision making with production reliability. A pragmatic engineer-founder with a PhD in computer science, he also contributes practical open-source tooling (e.g., extending Sublime Text autocompletion) and has a track record of turning experimental hacks into business-critical systems.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Bern
English, German
Github Skills (9)
autocomplete10
sublime-text-plugin10
python10
plugin10
regular-expression9
debug8
debugging8
performance-optimization8
javascript6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
alienhard/SublimeAllAutocomplete
May 2012 - Jun 2019
Extend Sublime autocompletion to find matches in all open files of the current window
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily contributed to the development of a Sublime Text plugin for autocompletion, modifying the core logic to extend its functionality. Their work included fixing bugs related to missing suggestions, optimizing performance, and improving compatibility with Sublime Text 3. The user also refactored the code, added settings for excluding scopes, and enhanced the user experience with file name display in completion items.
matcheswindowautocompletionsublimesublime-text-3
alienhard/adventofcode2024
Dec 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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