Amos King
Senior Staff Backend Engineer at Erlang Ecosystem Foundation
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolAmos King is a Senior Staff Backend Engineer with 18 years of experience blending hands-on backend development, Agile coaching, and product-focused leadership from Kansas City. A former founder and current Adobe engineer, he specializes in resilient distributed systems using Elixir, GraphQL and pragmatic testing practices—bringing property-based testing and automation into production contexts. Amos is an active community builder and conference speaker, co-organizing Elixir meetups, hosting multiple podcasts, and serving on the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation board. He contributes to open-source testing tooling (notably improvements to the well-known Webrat acceptance test suite) and consistently emphasizes shipping quality through team trust and coaching rather than trade-offs. Not obvious at first glance: his background as a Ground Radio Tech in the Air National Guard informs a disciplined, systems-level approach to reliability and field diagnostics.
18 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and TechnologyCarlinville High School
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Github Skills (10)
ruby10
matcher10
test-framework10
test-automation10
testing10
selenium9
selenium-ide9
smtp6
elixir6
phoenix-framework6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
brynary/webrat
Dec 2008 - Jan 2009
Webrat - Ruby Acceptance Testing for Web applications
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:40 commits in 23 days
Contributions summary:Amos primarily contributed to the testing aspects of the Webrat project. They added and modified test assertions, including `assert_contain`, `assert_xpath`, and `assert_selector` methods to improve testing coverage and consistency. Furthermore, they refactored the existing code to ensure proper test execution in selenium mode. The user also implemented tests to verify clicking links functionality with the new assertion methods.
acceptance-testingweb-applicationssinatratestingruby
BinaryNoggin/bamboo_config_adapter
Apr 2018 - Mar 2019
A Bamboo adapter to allow adapter configurations to be overridable for each email
Contributions:2 releases, 16 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year
bambooemailfor-eachadapterconfigurations
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