Adam Brooks

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Engineering Manager at Corvid Group · Real-time systems · Go, Erlang/OTP

Corvid Group
Denver, CO · MT (UTC-7)
9+ years experience
Harvard Business School
English
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Overview

Based in Denver. I lead real-time systems at Corvid Group. Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 36 a week to 2. Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 21% in two quarters. Before that: Workday and Visa.

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Skills
WebSocketsGoRedisErlang/OTPElixirlow-latency systems
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Hiring a security engineer for the real-time team - Denver or remote

Role
Security engineer
Level
Mid
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote
Compensation
$160k-$216k
Team
Real-time, 6 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Production experience with low-latency systems Production experience with Erlang/OTP Clear written communication
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp $167k-$311k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Denver, CO · remote OKgorediselixir
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Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Sep 2024 - Present
    Corvid Group · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
    • Moved 93% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Built the experimentation framework 16 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Grew the real-time team from 6 to 25 engineers.
  2. Software Engineer
    Jun 2021 - Sep 2024
    Workday · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
    • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 846ms to 78ms.
  3. Software Engineer
    Jul 2017 - Mar 2021
    Visa · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
    • Moved 79% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Wrote the Elixir service that now handles 14 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. Harvard Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2019 - 2021
  2. University of Florida
    BS, Computer Engineering
    2013 - 2017

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