David Adams
Lead Platform Engineer
Springfield, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Adams is a Lead Platform Engineer with 16 years building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently based in Springfield, Missouri. He has led platform and foundational AWS work at scale—designing GitOps-driven multi-region secret management with HashiCorp Vault and shaping Terraform standards—while shipping automation tools in Go, Bash, Ruby, and Python to accelerate operations. His background spans roles at HashiCorp and large SaaS and academic environments where he drove reliability, compliance, and cost optimization for globally distributed systems supporting tens of millions of daily users. An active contributor to HashiCorp’s Terraform ecosystem, he has written rigorous Go-based acceptance tests for the terraform-provider-tfe to harden OAuth client handling. Known for blending deep systems administration with software engineering, he mentors teams and builds pragmatic tooling that measurably speeds recovery and deployment.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Lakeside High SchoolBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Missouri State University
Github Skills (7)
terraformer10
go10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
test-automation10
terraform-cloud9
terraform-enterprise9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-tfe
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
Official HCP Terraform and Terraform Enterprise provider, maintained by HashiCorp. Provision HCP Terraform or Terraform Enterprise - with Terraform!
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 12 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
Contributions summary:David focused on enhancing the `tfe-provider` by developing and implementing comprehensive acceptance tests for the `tfe_oauth_client` data source. These tests cover various scenarios, including finding OAuth clients by ID, name, and service provider, as well as error cases like missing parameters and duplicate entries. The contributions demonstrate a commitment to ensuring the reliability and functionality of the provider through rigorous testing. The tests were written in Go using the Terraform Plugin SDK.
tfe-providerproviderterraform-cloudprovisioncloud
daveadams/constancy
Jan 2018 - Sep 2020
Simple filesystem-to-Consul KV synchronization
Contributions:35 commits, 6 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years 8 months
golangetcdconsul-kvsynchronizationrsync
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