Phil Adams
Senior Software Engineer, IBM Cloud - Developer Experience
Georgetown, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Adams is a senior software engineer at IBM Cloud with a multi-decade engineering pedigree and deep expertise in REST APIs, SDK generation, and enterprise Java platforms. He leads the IBM Cloud OpenAPI SDK Generator, turning OpenAPI definitions into language-specific client SDKs that streamline developer experience across IBM services. His career spans roles from WebSphere web services architect—where he contributed to the SOAP/JMS work that informed W3C specs—to healthcare-focused FHIR API implementations for Watson Health. A pragmatic engineering manager and Agile advocate, he pairs hands-on coding with team leadership and long-term product stewardship. Based in Georgetown, Texas, he blends systems-level thinking from chip-design toolchains to cloud-native SDK tooling, reflecting a rare continuity of technical depth. Despite a “retired” note on public bios, he remains actively shaping cloud developer tooling at IBM.
10 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of VermontMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at National Technological University
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Github Skills (180)
cloud-computing10
python10
json-schema10
ibm-cloud10
api-client10
swagger10
db210
terraform10
python-client10
rest-client10
cloud-platform10
openapi-generator10
ibm-watson10
extensible10
linter10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
padamstx/openapi-generator
Dec 2018 - Feb 2023
OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec (v2, v3)
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 24 pushes in 4 years 3 months
api-clientapisdk-generationopenapi-specopenapi-codegen
IBM/ibm-cloud-sdk-common
Mar 2020 - Oct 2022
This repository contains common files used by various IBM Cloud SDK projects.
Contributions:35 reviews, 60 commits, 44 PRs in 2 years 7 months
ibm-cloudcloud-sdksdkcloudalibaba
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