Gavin Adams
Brooklyn, Michigan, United States
Summary
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RockstarGavin Adams is a cloud and IoT-focused enterprise architect with 11+ years at AWS helping Fortune 500 clients execute large-scale transformations, including data center migrations of 15,000+ hosts and platforms supporting 30+ million devices. He blends hands-on engineering (infrastructure as code, Zero Trust, PKI) with program leadership, having led $50M+ modernization efforts across automotive, financial services, and telecom. Gavin has deep connected-vehicle and IoT expertise—designing real-time platforms for millions of endpoints—and has driven specification‑led tooling and agentic modernization methods used by tier‑1 manufacturers. An active contributor to AWS open-source projects, he’s improved PlantUML AWS icon examples to help teams communicate complex architectures more clearly. He holds multiple AWS Professional and Specialty certifications, a cloud computing patent, and a decade of remote work experience based in Michigan. Gavin is equally comfortable architecting secure machine identity (PKI) solutions and debating emerging cloud patterns over coffee.
11 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
53reputation
9kreached
6answers
2questions
Github Skills (13)
diagramming10
aws10
plantuml10
iot6
paho6
mqtt6
aws-sts6
docker6
docker-compose6
aws-cli6
amazon-web-services6
aws-iot6
python5
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/aws-icons-for-plantuml
May 2019 - Jun 2022
PlantUML sprites, macros, and other includes for Amazon Web Services services and resources
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 4 reviews, 15 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Gavin primarily contributed to the project by adding and updating PlantUML examples for sequence diagrams, particularly those related to Amazon Web Services (AWS) services. They implemented code changes to incorporate new examples and modified existing ones, including the use of sprites and participant definitions. Furthermore, the user demonstrated a strong understanding of the project's structure and build processes, incorporating updates from various icon sets. These contributions involved making adjustments to icon sets, documentation, and incorporating corrections related to naming conventions and color schemes.
mermaidmacrosamazonaws-iconsweb-services
awslabs/aws-iot-core-credential-provider-session-helper
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
This package provides an easy way to create a refreshable Boto3 Session using the AWS IoT Core credential provider.
Contributions:53 commits, 144 PRs, 79 pushes in 22 days
awsiamiotpython
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