Adam Brown

Experience

• Joined to spearhead development of a data pipeline scheduling service built with Spring Boot and Quartz, establishing a reliable foundation for large-scale data processing.
• Founded and currently leading the Platform Core Services team, delivering and owning critical services including secret management, OAuth support, Keycloak integration, audit logging, Kafka communication, and more.

Key Contributions & Leadership

• Drove cross-team alignment by facilitating knowledge sharing, guiding technical decision-making, and enabling consistent adoption of best practices.
• Acted as a trusted technical advisor, shaping strategy and solving complex problems with long-term impact across the organization.
• Raised engineering quality standards by implementing robust automated test suites and championing practices that ensured technical excellence.
• Directed architectural strategy for complex, distributed systems, balancing scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Enhanced platform reliability by integrating observability tooling to enable proactive monitoring and rapid incident response.
• Invested in team growth, fostering professional development and mentoring engineers to expand technical and leadership capabilities.
• Led large-scale, cross-team initiatives, ensuring delivery of complex features through alignment, collaboration, and shared ownership.
• Guided technical investigations and delivery, translating complex plans into clear execution paths and empowering teams to deliver high-quality outcomes.

Experience

• Took a lead role in a cross-functional squad, building a new platform with a Java backend, React frontend, and AWS infrastructure to support personal development and team training initiatives.

Key Contributions & Leadership

• Drove feature development and delivery in an agile environment, ensuring consistent progress toward business goals.
• Mentored engineers through code reviews and pair programming, raising code quality and accelerating team growth.
• Shaped architectural direction by refining new features into designs aligned with the platform’s long-term vision.
• Elevated quality standards by expanding and maintaining a comprehensive automated test suite, ensuring reliability and scalability.

Experience

• Connections Platform — a solution enabling the creation and deployment of modern, interactive, and personalized ATM applications.

Key Contributions & Leadership

• Led architectural strategy across multiple Connections products, ensuring scalable, maintainable, and integrated solutions.
• Drove feature implementation across the product suite, balancing delivery speed with long-term platform stability.
• Mentored and onboarded engineers, accelerating their understanding of Connections products and fostering effective cross-product collaboration.
• Evolved CI/CD pipelines to improve development velocity, reliability, and overall engineering efficiency.

Experience

• Modernized a legacy enterprise platform by decomposing a monolithic application into Spring Boot microservices with REST APIs, improving scalability and maintainability.

Key Contributions & Leadership

• Designed and delivered a critical microservice to synchronize business-essential customer data between two enterprise platforms, ensuring accuracy and reliability.
• Led frontend development with AngularJS, establishing coding standards and best practices.
• Built and evolved CI/CD processes, including automated analysis, continuous testing, and integration pipelines for frontend services.
• Maintained Jenkins infrastructure, streamlining deployments and reducing operational overhead.
• Collaborated with external pre-sales teams to support client engagements and provided hands-on resolution for production issues, reinforcing trust with stakeholders.

Experience

• Researched and developed prototype systems across a wide range of domains — from mobile to ATM consumer applications — to validate product concepts and guide product management strategy.
• Contributed to innovation at scale, recognized as a co-developer on a project leading to a US patent filing, demonstrating impact on the company’s intellectual property and product differentiation.