Samer Adra
Lead Software Engineer, VP at T. Rowe Price
Madisonville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamer Adra is a Lead Software Engineer and VP with a decade of experience building quality-first tooling and test automation across financial services and enterprise environments. Currently at T. Rowe Price, he drives firmwide testing strategies, developer tooling, and coaching to elevate delivery and hiring standards. He has a strong track record of architecting reusable, model-based test frameworks (notably a Scala-based market simulator at FINRA) that blend combinatorial data generation with on-cluster and local testing. A polyglot who favors Scala and Kotlin, Samer writes highly testable code with an emphasis on 100% unit coverage and lean, systems-thinking approaches informed by Deming’s quality principles. He pairs deep technical craftsmanship with practical process change—making testing fun and shrinkable into developer workflows.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, 3.78, BS, Computer Science, 3.78 at University of KansasWichita State University
English, koine greek, Arabic, Spanish
Github Skills (55)
matcher10
java10
testing9
gitlab-api9
coverage9
kotlin9
verification9
coverlet9
tdd9
gitlab9
code-coverage9
rest-api8
ruby-client8
mocking8
instrumentation7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
FINRAOS/DataGenerator
Jul 2015 - Apr 2016
DataGenerator is a Java library for systematically producing large volumes of data. DataGenerator frames data production as a modeling problem, with a user providing a model of dependencies among variables and the library traversing the model to produce relevant data sets.
Contributions:148 commits, 7 PRs, 47 comments in 8 months
java
SamerAdra/DataGenerator
Jul 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 7 pushes in 9 months
data-framesdependenciesdata-setsvolumesjava-library
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