Adam Talbot
Principal Engineer at Epic Games
Kirklees, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Talbot is a Principal Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating large-scale, multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms and cloud-native infrastructure from West Yorkshire. He leads cloud infrastructure teams (now at Epic Games) and has driven platform engineering, automation, and developer experience across roles at Sky Betting & Gaming and Venafi. A strong advocate of infrastructure-as-code and Kubernetes operators, he contributes to cert-manager—helping adapt it for Gateway API v1, refactor metrics, and tighten TLS/certificate handling. Comfortable in Golang, Terraform and hybrid cloud environments, he blends hands-on coding with technical leadership and team upskilling. Less obvious: he routinely balances product delivery with open-source maintenance, ensuring platform features align with upstream community standards.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computing Media Maths Physics, Computing Media Maths Physics at Sir John Deane's CollegeBSc Computer Science (Honors), BSc Computer Science (Honors) at University of Bradford
Github Skills (16)
crt10
aws-apigateway10
kubernetes10
ca-api-gateway10
amazon-api-gateway10
certificate10
go10
devops10
api-gateway10
kubernetes-pods10
tls139
libtls9
tls129
mtls9
testing8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cert-manager/cert-manager
Apr 2020 - Jul 2026
Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:113 reviews, 38 PRs, 5 tags in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the `cert-manager` project by updating the codebase to align with the Gateway API v1 specifications. They made changes to `go.mod` files, updating dependencies. They also refactored the metrics server code into an internal package and added TLS configuration options to the metrics endpoint. Furthermore, they ensured that certificate requests and secrets are not created during a certificate's deletion process.
kubernetesletsencrypttlscertificatecrd
ThatsMrTalbot/cert-manager
Dec 2023 - Jul 2026
Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes
Contributions:87 pushes, 40 branches in 2 years 7 months
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