Adam Cooper
Senior Software Engineer at Zipline
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Cooper is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer based in Vancouver with 17 years building full-stack web and embedded systems, currently driving engineering at Zipline. He excels at translating product strategy into pragmatic, scalable architectures and MVP-focused delivery, having led multiple scrum teams and transitioned large groups into smaller, high-performing agile teams. Deeply experienced in Ruby on Rails, React, APIs and search technologies, he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and ops responsibility to maintain uptime and performance. His open-source work includes enhancing vestal_versions to support soft-deletes and restore/revert workflows, reflecting a focus on reliable data recovery and auditability. Comfortable coordinating remote and outsourced teams, he brings a blend of technical depth and project management that reduces long-term maintenance costs. Pragmatic and communicative, he consistently delivers solutions that meet today’s needs while enabling tomorrow’s extension.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BaSC, Computer Engineering, Commerce, BaSC, Computer Engineering, Commerce at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (7)
version-control10
data-modeling10
activerecord10
rspec10
ruby10
software-design9
object-oriented-programming9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
laserlemon/vestal_versions
Jul 2010 - Dec 2010
Keep a DRY history of your ActiveRecord models' changes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Adam's contributions focused on enhancing the `vestal_versions` library, particularly by adding features related to soft deletes and version restoration. This involved implementing a `restore` method and modifying the versioning process to handle deleted records. Furthermore, they integrated functionalities to track reverts, allowing for a more complete history of model changes and improving the library's capabilities for data recovery.
activerecord
retailzipline/hiring-exercises
Feb 2022 - Apr 2026
Code challenges and hiring exercises we use for evaluating candidates
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 1 push in 4 years 3 months
hiringpythoncandidates
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