Tim Adam
Software Engineering Manager at Flexera
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
🤩
RockstarTim Adam is a software engineering manager based in Melbourne with 7 years of experience leading backend teams and shipping production-quality systems. At Flexera he blends hands-on Go development with people leadership, driving API-first designs and robust validation across distributed services. An active open-source contributor to the well-regarded goa framework, Tim has improved code generation, gRPC streaming validation, and error messaging—work that reduces drift between docs and implementation. He combines practical engineering rigor with a keen eye for developer experience, often tackling subtle issues like field tag inheritance and predeclared type handling that improve long-term maintainability.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
code-generation10
go10
api10
grpc10
golang9
openapi8
rest7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
goadesign/goa
Apr 2019 - Nov 2019
Design-first Go framework that generates API code, documentation, and clients. Define once in an elegant DSL, deploy as HTTP and gRPC services with zero drift between code and docs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 21 PRs, 3 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the `goadesign/goa` framework, focusing on enhancing its code generation and validation capabilities. Their work included adding type names to validation error messages, incorporating predeclared Go types and constants, and refining gRPC client stream handling. Additionally, they addressed issues related to field tag inheritance and validation within the gRPC framework and added validation calls in the streaming gRPC calls.
golangapicode-generationcode-generatorgoa
tmcladam/diagrams
Sep 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.