Adam Elmore
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and AWS Developer
Springfield, MO, United States
Toptal member since June 11, 2021
Adam has been a software engineer for 13 years and specialized in cloud engineering and DevOps, specifically AWS, for the last seven years. In 2014, he co-founded StatMuse, a San Francisco-based startup that was backed by Disney and Google. Currently, Adam provides freelance cloud and web development services to organizations of all sizes. His focus areas include setting up best practices for IaC, security, scalability, and CI/CD. Adam's industry experience is backed by 12 AWS certifications.
Portfolio
Experience
- Web - 12 years
- Continuous Integration (CI) - 7 years
- Continuous Delivery (CD) - 7 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 7 years
- Cloud - 7 years
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - 5 years
- TypeScript - 4 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
TypeScript, JavaScript, Web, Python, Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The most amazing...
...thing I've accomplished was completing 12 AWS certifications in six weeks.
Work Experience
Owner, President
Elmore, Inc.
- Provided guidance and architectural oversight in building out complex applications using best practices on AWS. Clients included Coinweb Ltd. (coinweb.io), Medium LLC (flows.ai), and AgentSync (agentsync.io).
- Provided technical consulting to top-tier financial institutions, including J.P. Morgan Chase, Raymond James, Stifel Nicolaus, HSBC, and U.S. Bank. Worked closely with traders on the floor to develop cloud-based fixed income trading systems.
- Partnered with a leading professor of statistics at Wharton to build retail site selection algorithms.
- Partnered with Microsoft's justice and public safety division to build an application for crime investigation teams across the country.
- Consulted for Schlumberger on a cloud-based, real-time drilling diagnostics and team collaboration software solution.
CTO, Co-founder
StatMuse, Inc.
- Recruited, hired, and led a remote-first engineering team from one to twenty engineers over five years.
- Designed and developed a natural language processing technology for turning natural language questions into database queries. This technology has been used to answer 15 million+ questions from 20 million+ sports fans in 120+ countries.
- Raised more than $15 million in capital from traditional venture capitalists and key strategic investors, including The Walt Disney Company and Google.
- Collaborated with the Google Assistant Sports team to create engaging answers to sports stats questions on Assistant by leveraging the voices of NFL superstars.
- Worked with stakeholders at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, OH, to design and implement an interactive augmented reality experience that brings the bronze busts of football legends to life.
Experience
Augmented Reality Exhibit at the Pro Football Hall of Fame
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2019/01/24/super-bowl-john-madden-bust-comes-life-iphone-and-android/2658717002/First, I developed a proprietary motion tracking system to capture the facial movements of our subjects (Madden and Strahan), using the TrueDepth camera on an iPad Pro.
Then I sat with these football personalities in the studio to record interviews and capture the data necessary to drive the exhibit.
From there, I built out playback technology into an iOS app that allowed museum patrons to ask questions like, "What was it like to be carried off the field after winning the Super Bowl?" and hear from the talking, digital bust in an AR session in real time.
The project was a success and featured at Super Bowl week in Atlanta in February 2019.
Certifications
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder — Specialty
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
AWS
AWS Certified Advanced Networking — Specialty
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Machine Learning — Specialty
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty
AWS
AWS Certified Database Specialty
AWS
AWS Certified Security — Specialty
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
AWS
AWS Certified Developer Associate
AWS
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React
Tools
AWS IAM, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon SageMaker, AWS Batch, AWS Glue, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS ELB, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
Languages
JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Elixir, F#
Paradigms
Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD)
Platforms
Web, AWS ALB, AWS NLB, Amazon Web Services (AWS), iOS, Amazon Alexa
Storage
Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Other
Cloud, Technical Writing, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AWS DevOps, System Administration, Cloud Security, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon Kinesis, AWS Direct Connect, AWS Transit Gateway, AWS VPN, Amazon Route 53, AWS Cloud Architecture, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Consulting, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Amazon RDS, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), Amazon Redshift, Augmented Reality (AR), Speech Synthesis, Security
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