Adam Cooper
Senior Software Engineer at Khan Academy
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Cooper is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building platform engineering and distributed backend systems at Google, The New York Times, and Khan Academy. He specializes in scalable, observable cloud-native infrastructure—particularly Go microservices, CI/CD, and multi-region database deployments across AWS and GCP—and has a proven track record of improving reliability and engineering velocity. Notable impacts include a 54% reduction in cloud costs through architecture modernization and measurable latency and reliability gains for user-facing mobile services. Adam blends hands-on systems work with developer tooling and automation, creating internal platforms that let teams ship securely at scale. Based in Ann Arbor, he pairs production incident experience and on-call leadership with a background in education and developer mentoring, which informs his emphasis on developer productivity and clear operational processes.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Cartography, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Cartography at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Spanish, French, German, Latin, Greek
Github Skills (184)
divide10
nosql10
database10
mpd10
mongodb-database10
pacman10
apt10
mongodb10
discord10
pygments10
synology9
movie9
visual9
nvidia-docker9
chameleon9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
super-cooper/adamcooper.sh
Aug 2022 - Jul 2026
Source code for my personal website
Contributions:156 PRs, 253 pushes, 195 branches in 3 years 11 months
kotlinktor-serverktor
ChameleonCloud/trovi
Oct 2021 - Sep 2023
A collection of shared artifacts.
Contributions:44 reviews, 118 PRs, 233 pushes in 1 year 10 months
chameleonfabricpythoncloud-computingdjango-rest-framework
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