Adam T. Carpenter

I am a computer programmer who has been developing and maintaining native and web applications for over five years. My focus has been in operational automation and self-service. I aim to create simple, performant, and well-documented software that adds value. I avoid surprises using industry standard site reliability engineering practices.

Work History

• Manage team of eight software engineers both on site and remote
• Coordinate development of self-service portal with 2000+ DAU
• Develop OpenAI-generated transcript summary UI for quick review of client calls
• Own AI platform services development workstream
• Design and implement Argo BlueGreen rollout strategy for progressive deployments with zero downtime
• Evangelize adoption of continuous deployment in a heavily manual change environment
• Create remote developer jump box to reduce onboarding time

• Reverse engineered undocumented, proprietary protocol and created Angelshark to automate config changes. Sends commands over SSH channels to remote terminal emulators.
• Co-authored custom authentication API and reverse proxy to serve as a container traffic router; Turns LDAP credentials into JWTs
• Mentored six new team developers on Google SRE practices, continuous integration, and Kubernetes orchestration

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