Christian Adams
Owner, Sound Engineer at Continuum Audio LLC
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolChristian Adams is a full-stack software engineer and longtime small business owner based in Durham, NC, who blends a maker’s attention to craft from a decade running a live-sound company with production-grade experience at Ansible/Red Hat. He has contributed significant back-end and DevOps work to high-profile open-source projects like Ansible and AWX—improving operators, PostgreSQL backup/restore, and CI/CD pipelines—while also authoring clear porting documentation across multiple Ansible releases. Comfortable with Python, Kubernetes operators, and system automation, he focuses on reliability, operational resilience, and pragmatic tooling. His background in music and experimental lab research signals a creative, methodical problem-solver who values communication and process as much as code.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science in Computer Science and Information Systems Computer Science, Masters of Science in Computer Science and Information Systems Computer Science at University of North Carolina WilmingtonBachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Chemistry & Bachelor of Music Performance Chemistry & Music, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Chemistry & Bachelor of Music Performance Chemistry & Music at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
postgresql10
resource-dictionary10
back-end-development10
ansible-awx10
python10
apidoc10
django10
technical-writing10
django-rest10
kubernetes-operator10
automation10
api10
django-rest-framework10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/awx-operator
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
An Ansible AWX operator for Kubernetes built with Operator SDK and Ansible. 🤖
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Database Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Database EngineerContributions:433 reviews, 208 commits, 504 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Christian focused on enhancing the AWX Operator's backup and restore functionality, specifically related to PostgreSQL. They implemented and refactored the backup process, including creating PVCs, PVs, and management pods. Furthermore, the user added features for secret management and improved the overall resilience of the operator, including the addition of restore capabilities. The contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of Kubernetes, Ansible, and database management within the context of the AWX platform.
operator-sdkawx-ansibleansibleopenshiftoperator
ansible/awx
Jun 2017 - Dec 2022
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 156 reviews, 543 commits in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on back-end development, particularly in the context of the Ansible AWX project. The contributions involved fixing bugs related to capacity calculations and duplicate instances within the API. Further work included the addition and modification of features for job templates and ad hoc commands involving "diff" mode. The changes were focused on enhancing the functionality and stability of the AWX platform.
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