Adam P.

About Adam P.

I’m passionate about safer systems that are simple, scalable, and secure. My philosophy centers on Deploy Safety, creating an environment where teams can deploy with confidence.Deploy safety means empowering engineers with tools like partial or isolated deploys, feature flags, gradual rollouts, and fast, seamless rollbacks. When teams know they can recover quickly, they’re more willing to experiment and take bold technical leaps, without fear of breaking everything.Deploy safety isn’t just about uptime. It\'s about security. Many gaps arise from systems that are too risky to update. Teams can modernize faster, reduce vulnerabilities, and build with confidence when they know the system they are working can be reverted back quickly and seamlessly.

Experience

1. Staff Platform Engineer

   Atomic Ai

   Dec 2024 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Building out improved cluster design that reduces pain points and several complexities.* k3s based GPU accelerated cluster built using terraform and ansible * AWS EKS for CPU workloads built entirely in terraform * Both clusters use a single consistent authentication process based on AWS IAM (this is trivial for EKS but for K3s took some fiddling)* Mentoring others to share knowledge in DevOps * Built dockerized pipeline for computational chemistry work * Managed lab computers * Ran security training for all employees* Provide support to all employees both technical and non-technical

Education

• University of California, Davis

  BS, Biotechnology

  2003 — 2007

Skills

• Devops
• Cloud Computing
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Software Development
• Ruby on Rails