Jeff Adams
Senior Software Engineer at New York Times
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarJeff Adams is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 12 years of experience building and operating production systems across media and high-traffic consumer services. He has progressed from Linux system administration to DevOps and site reliability roles, and has been at The New York Times since 2016 driving resilient, scalable infrastructure. His background at companies like Bitly, New York Public Radio, and Shutterstock gives him deep operational expertise in distributed systems, monitoring, and incident response. Jeff blends hands-on systems engineering with software-first reliability practices, helping teams move from ad hoc ops to automated, observable platforms. He’s comfortable working at the intersection of engineering and operations and often brings the pragmatic perspective of a long-time sysadmin to software delivery. A detail that sets him apart is a steady career focus on media and content platforms, making him adept at balancing high availability with editorial workflows and rapid release cycles.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (24)
icinga10
autoconf10
nagios10
perl10
terraform-module10
monitoring9
aws-vpc9
aws9
dns8
vpc8
infrastructure-as-code8
aws-route537
puppet7
jenkins6
jenkins-pipeline6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jeffadams/odds_ends
Aug 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
jeffadams/aws-tags-api
Feb 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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