Tessa Adams

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Senior Engineering Manager, Amazon - Redis · Go · low-latency systems

Amazon
Miami, FL · ET (UTC-5)
10+ years experience
Purdue University
English, Arabic
Co-founder
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Overview

I lead real-time systems at Amazon in Miami. Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: Salesforce and UnitedHealth Group. Most at home with WebSockets and low-latency systems. Learning to draw.

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Skills
Erlang/OTPGoElixirRedislow-latency systemsWebSockets
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a design-minded co-founder for field-service scheduling for freight forwarders

The idea
Field-service scheduling for freight forwarders
Stage
Prototype
I bring
11 years in real-time systems
Looking for
Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment
Full-time now
Location
Miami or remote

I bring 15 years of real-time systems (currently Amazon). Ideally you've sold to enterprises. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

Miami, FLwebsocketselixirlow-latency systems
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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Aug 2025 - Present
    Amazon · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Led the migration of 23 services to WebSockets.
    • Shipped 6 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Jun 2023 - Aug 2025
    Salesforce · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Grew the real-time team from 6 to 32 engineers.
    • Shipped 26 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
  3. Software Engineer
    Dec 2020 - Jun 2023
    UnitedHealth Group · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Moved 73% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 34% in two quarters.
  4. Staff Software Engineer
    Oct 2018 - Dec 2020
    Visa · 2 yr 2 mo · Contract · Miami, FL
    • Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion.
  5. Senior Software Engineer
    Jul 2016 - Sep 2018
    Apple · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 14 a week to 2.
    • Led the migration of 66 services to Erlang/OTP.

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Education

  1. Purdue University
    BS, Electronics and Communication
    2006 - 2010

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