Adam Bernot
Verified Expert in Engineering
Leadership Developer
Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Toptal member since February 10, 2021
Adam is a software engineer specializing in back-end development, with additional expertise in DevOps and front-end development. He loves working with Go, Kubernetes, and cloud-native applications. Adam has extensive experience in leadership, diverse issues, collaboration, and compassion. He believes it's the people who make the work fantastic.
Portfolio
Experience
- Leadership - 10 years
- Go - 8 years
- Kubernetes - 7 years
- Docker - 7 years
- Microservices - 4 years
- Software Engineering - 2 years
- Testing - 2 years
- Back-end Development - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Kubernetes, Go, Leadership, APIs, DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Software Engineering, Open Source, Cloud Native
The most amazing...
...thing I've done was build a certification program tracking system for the largest student-run organization in the world.
Work Experience
Software Engineer
Google Cloud
- Built and owned Kubernetes controller to manage a file/block storage solution for Google Distributed Cloud Hosted product.
- Contributed to the overall code health of the repository by periodically inventorying technical debt and addressing important issues.
- Served as build sheriff to address issues that resulted in automated tests falling for many or all developers on the project at once. Diagnosed quickly and corrected offending commits to getting hundreds of developers back to being productive.
Software Engineer
Bernot Software
- Developed an application to monitor student housing availability in near real-time.
- Built a certification program tracking system for the largest entirely student-run organization in the world.
- Built a running pace calculator for competitive runners looking to predict their race times at various distances.
- Worked with a client in the financial technology industry to build a microservice in Go that handled business logic related to processing consumer loans.
Web Developer
NC State University
- Built a Shibboleth authentication microservice to facilitate migration from traditional infrastructure to a cloud-native environment in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
- Maintained and contributed to multiple internally developed WordPress plugins.
- Migrated student radio website (legacy custom PHP) to WordPress, allowing radio station staff to manage their own content for the first time.
- Presented regularly. This included non-technical WordPress user training sessions, as well as technical presentations on topics like extending the WordPress REST API and test-driven development with PHPUnit.
Assistant Director
Wake Forest University
- Developed tools for interacting with a vendor's API to streamline business processes.
- Created the integration between the vendor system and Google Sheets.
- Built the integration between Gmail and the vendor system to track interactions between students and staff in a centralized location.
Director
Spring Hill College
- Managed an implementation project for a vendor software system.
- Used Google Apps Script and Google Sheets to prepare and present live data on the web.
- Served on data governance task force and as a data steward for data in my area of responsibility.
Experience
SRS | StarRez Superuser
I developed this application and built a corresponding CI/CD pipeline to compile binaries for multiple target platforms using GitHub Actions.
Shibber: Shibboleth Authentication Microservice
I developed and implemented this microservice. To ensure quality, successful reviews were conducted by security and compliance and by identity and web services.
NACURH ART Database
I built it using Angular for the front end and Google Firebase (Firestore, authentication, and hosting) on the back end.
Housing Availability
I built this application for a client to meet their needs, with incremental improvements over time to allow for more control of the system and output.
Google Distributed Cloud Hosted
https://cloud.google.com/distributed-cloudEducation
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Western Oregon University - Monmouth, OR
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, REST APIs, Node.js, Firebase Web SDK, Protobuf, OpenAPI, JSON API, Cloud Key Management Service (KMS)
Tools
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Firebase Authentication, GitHub, Git, Apache, Helm, Terraform, Amazon EKS, Docker Compose, Shibboleth, GitLab, Travis CI, Logging, SonarQube, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
Languages
Go, TypeScript, PHP, JavaScript, GraphQL, CSS, HTML, HTML5, SAML, Python, Python 3, Google Apps Script, SCSS, PHP 7, SQL, YAML, Rust, Java
Paradigms
Microservices, DevOps, Microservices Architecture, Testing, Test-driven Development (TDD), REST, Web Architecture, API Architecture, BEM, RESTful Development, Best Practices, Back-end Architecture, Real-time Systems, Event-driven Architecture
Platforms
Kubernetes, WordPress, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Visual Studio Code (VS Code), LAMP, Cloud Native, AWS Lambda
Frameworks
NestJS, Laravel, Angular, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Jest, Cypress, Flux, Angular Material, Material UI, gRPC, Swagger, Express.js
Storage
MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Datadog, Cloud Firestore, JSON, Google Cloud SQL, Relational Databases, JSON/XML Schemas, Google Cloud, NoSQL, Google Cloud Storage, Redis
Other
Software Engineering, CI/CD Pipelines, APIs, Back-end Development, Back-end, Leadership, Prometheus, Reliability, Enterprise Integration, Cross-functional Communication, CSV, Reflection, JSON REST APIs, Full-stack, Google Cloud Build, Architecture, Distributed Systems, Software as a Service (SaaS), Large-scale Projects, Google Pub/Sub, Security, GitHub Actions, Cloud Security, OAuth, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Identity & Access Management (IAM), Technical Leadership, Full-stack Development, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Third-party Integration, SaaS, Multi-tenant Architecture, Cloud Architecture, System Design, Large Language Models (LLMs), AI-assisted Development, Agentic AI, Software Architecture, Firebase Hosting, Cookies, Authentication, User Authentication, Concurrency, WordPress Plugins, Front-end Development, Single-page Applications (SPAs), DNS, Containers, TypeORM, Front-end, Code Architecture, UX Architecture, Material Design, HTTP, OpenTracing, Structured Logging, OpenTelemetry, Static Analysis, Schemas, Multitenancy, Team Leadership, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Cross-functional Collaboration, Integration, API Integration, Containerization, Amazon RDS, Storage, Cloud Storage, Open Source, Lambda Functions, Strategy, New Products, Real-time Data, IT Security, Distributed Architecture, Amazon Kinesis, Pub/Sub, Cloudflare, Identity Verification, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), MERN Stack, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), WordPress Themes
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