Summary
Adam De Fouw is an Application Development Manager and full-stack developer with over a decade of experience building Ruby on Rails, PHP, and JavaScript web applications. He currently leads application development for UW School of Medicine and Public Health and has long managed REDCap infrastructure and integrations for research teams at UW–Madison, including creating a REDCap Cypress testing framework used by the consortium. Adam combines hands-on encryption and secure data practices for sensitive HR and medical datasets with practical DevOps skills like Docker-based development environments. His background spans custom CMS work, PHP/MySQL backends, and front-end standards (XHTML/CSS), informed by early roles in web design and school technology support. Colleagues rely on his troubleshooting, policy design, and communication skills to bridge researchers’ needs and production-grade engineering.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Business Administration, Information Technology Infrastructure, Bachelor's of Business Administration, Information Technology Infrastructure at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
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