Christopher Adams
Consultant, System Design And Scalability at Christopher Adams
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Adams is a consultant specializing in system design and scalability with 15 years of engineering experience and a deep track record scaling Python/Django systems at consumer scale. After nearly seven years helping grow Venmo from 1M to 70M users, he now advises clients on partitioning monoliths, DB sharding, performance tuning, and infrastructure automation. His hands-on wins include migrating a 7B-edge social graph to an id-sharded cluster, upgrading Django across 94 minor versions safely, and parallelizing a fraud engine to increase throughput 700%. A longtime community contributor and organizer (DjangoCon Program Chair 2015, API Craft NYC), he also contributes to notable open-source projects including hyperledger/aries-cloudagent-python and Django-related tooling. He built and maintains sayitagain.me, a personal social app for saving quotes, and brings a practitioner’s eye for measurable impact—often improving capacity or latency by double-digit percentages. Based in New York, he combines deep backend craftsmanship with practical operational experience across MySQL/Postgres, Redis/RabbitMQ/Kafka, and AWS.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Master’s Degree at University of Oxford
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Github Skills (53)
python10
django-framework10
django10
splashscreen10
apache-cordova10
aws-sdk10
api10
orm10
sdk10
aws10
rest10
django-rest-framework10
rest-api10
cordova9
foundation9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
adamsc64/adamsc64-dotfiles
Jan 2016 - Feb 2025
Permanent home for my dotfiles
Contributions:1 PR, 72 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 3 months
adamsc64/django-manuscript
Apr 2011 - Nov 2011
Contributions:216 commits in 7 months
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