Adam Tankanow
Principal Software Engineer at CloudZero, Inc.
Grafton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Tankanow is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-ready systems and architecting solutions for enterprise customers at CloudZero. He has a strong background in distributed speech-recognition systems and embedded audio technologies from senior engineering and management roles at Nuance, Dolby, and Bose. A founding engineer mindset drives his focus on customer value, culture, and shipping practical, maintainable software across the stack. He contributes to open-source tooling—adding AsciiDoc support to the Clojure static site generator Cryogen—demonstrating a taste for language-level integrations and documentation workflows. Based in Grafton, MA, he pairs an MS in Music Engineering with a CS degree, bringing a rare intersection of audio domain expertise and systems engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who still enjoys hands-on hacking and mentoring small teams.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Tulane UniversityM.S. Music Engineering, M.S. Music Engineering at University of Miami
English
Stackoverflow
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24answers
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spring-mvc
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Github Skills (19)
asciidoc10
clojure-cli10
clojure10
static-site-generation10
static-site-generator9
markdown9
spring-mvc9
static-site9
markdown-it9
html9
auth6
moto6
aws-lambda6
single-sign-on6
amazon-web-services6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cryogen-project/cryogen
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
A simple static site generator written in Clojure
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 comments in 25 days
Contributions summary:Adam's contributions primarily centered on adding support for AsciiDoc markup to the static site generator. This involved implementing a `Markup` protocol and providing `Asciidoc` implementations. They integrated the new markup type within the compilation process, enabling parsing and rendering of AsciiDoc content. Furthermore, the user added AsciiDoc-specific CSS and updated the project creation process to include necessary templates and dependencies.
clojurestatic-site-generatorcryogenstatic-site
Cloudzero/provision-account
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
CloudZero Account provisioning automation for AWS
Contributions:28 reviews, 49 commits, 84 PRs in 4 years 3 months
automationawsprovisioningcloudzerocloudformation
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