Adam Gaddis

About Adam Gaddis

Data-Focused IT Leader with deep expertise spanning data engineering, analytics, and infrastructure. I bring end-to-end fluency across the modern data stack, analyst to engineer to architect, and combine that with practical IT experience managing SCADA systems, VPNs, and on-prem environments. Over the past 6+ years, I’ve led data and platform efforts across industries including energy, financial services, and tech, delivering scalable systems and measurable impact. My work blends hands-on development with strategic leadership: from owning mission-critical ingestion frameworks and building AI-driven internal tools, to managing cloud infrastructure and modernizing IT stacks. I specialize in data architecture, governance, and platform reliability, solving problems that scale from zero to enterprise-grade complexity.As I continue to grow into executive leadership roles, I’m especially focused on the intersection of data and compliance. I’m always looking to further enhance my ability to lead teams in today’s evolving regulatory and digital landscapes.

Experience

1. Data Engineer

   Cloudflare

   May 2024 — Present · Dallas, TX, US

   Data Engineer working on the BI team to support internal-facing data applications and large-scale ingestion pipelines— Created, owned, and currently maintain the platform operations for the Interim Variable Billing project—a direct revenue-generating initiative recouping $40M in quarterly revenue— Implemented a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) AI model for Cloudflare’s internal chatbot on the Lighthouse platform. Built a data pipeline to load hundreds of internal wikis into Cloudflare Vectorize and integrated with Cloudflare Workers to enable seamless AI-assisted internal search— Designed and implemented native data quality checks within our Go-based ingestion framework, enabling efficient in-line validation during ingestion— Delivered multiple internal presentations across both the Lighthouse sub-team and the 80+ member BI organization, covering topics such as RAG implementation, ClickHouse vs. Postgres, and ingestion architecture— Proposed a cost-saving redesign to eliminate reliance on Spark/Dataproc by migrating transformations to Rust-based DataFusion and/or DBT, significantly reducing compute cost— Developed and maintained multiple data pipelines using Cloudflare’s internal Go-based ingestion framework— Developed reusable ingestion pipelines to support syncing across a variety of structured and semi-structured data sources.

Education

• University of North Texas at Dallas

  Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Analytics

  2020 — 2022

• University of North Texas at Dallas

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Strategic Management

  2024 — 2025

• Dallas College

  Associate of Applied Sciences - AAS, Computer Science

  2016 — 2020