My name is Adam Schepis, although I’m known to many as Optimist Prime.
I also happen to be a father, husband, and software engineer.
My Writing
Skills
Here is what I think I'm good at
Being an optimist
Shipping great software
Picking up Heavy Things (and putting them down)
Always Sunny Trivia
Experience
What i've done along the way
Staff Engineer 2
· Boston, MAVMware Inc.
By way of CloudHealth Technologies acquisition. Member of core architecture team for the CloudHealth product. Drove the decision to use Kubernetes for microservices platform and architecture for core microservices. Drove API architecture and standards as CloudHealth moved its APIs from REST to GraphQL. Chaired a group within VMware to help drive GraphQL standards across the company
Architect
· Boston, MACloudHealth Technologies
Early engineer at who contributed to all aspects of the application (front-end, backend, data processing). this included design and development of new features that use big data to enable customers to analyze, understand, and optimize their cloud infrastructure. I save money for our customers.
Lead Developer
· Boston, MASpringboard Retail
Lead developer building a cloud-based retail point of sale
Founder
CloudAssault
Founder of a startup that provided cloud-scaled load-testing infrastructure to customers
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
· Waltham, MASymantec
Worked on a security gateway appliance and the Norton products
Web Developer
· Stoneham, MAPercussion Software
Principal Software Engineer
· Brookline, MAVirtuReal Classroom
Built an early streaming online education platform
Wentworth Institute of Technology
· Boston, MABachelor’s Degree, Computer Science
