About

Adam Backer is a highly skilled and experienced Sr. Software Engineer at SeatGeek with over 22 years of relevant experience. He has a strong background in Linux system administration and is constantly focused on centralized management, simple programming, reusable code, and enterprise-level monitoring with open source tools. Adam's specialties include systems architecture, management, administration, monitoring, and automated deployment. He is passionate about the "good stuff" and is always eager to take on new challenges. Adam is currently interested in full remote work and is particularly drawn to 3-4 day work week opportunities. He is a valuable asset to any team and has worked for some of the biggest names in the tech industry. Prior to joining SeatGeek, Adam worked at Uber as a Sr. Software Engineer - Compute SRE, where he worked on cloud presence initiatives before pivoting to SRE work within the ATG division. He supported a large Mesos installation and contributed to Kubernetes as a Mesos replacement. Adam also worked at Uber as a Sr. Software Engineer - DevTools, where he was part of a team of three managing development and service lifecycle tooling and environment automation. He programmed largely in Puppet/Ruby and contributed directly to internal CLI tool for managing development instances (python/click), a distributed service wrapping said CLI and maintaining pools of pre-configured services (python/flask), and various other internal tools. He often had to support unknown in-house software with little documentation. Adam's tech stack includes Software Engineer, SRE, Kubernetes, Python, Puppet, Flask, and Ruby. He is a highly motivated and dedicated individual who is always looking to expand his knowledge and skills. Overall, Adam is an exceptional Sr. Software Engineer with a proven track record of success in the tech industry.