Summary
Adam Vondersaar is a Lead DevOps Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure across startups and enterprises, currently leading DevOps at Uphold. He has driven large migrations from on-prem OpenStack/Xen to AWS, built CI/CD platforms with Python and infrastructure-as-code, and optimized workloads into AWS Lambda to reduce operating costs. Adam’s background spans big-data DevOps, database administration, and legacy-to-cloud migrations, reflecting deep Linux, FreeBSD/Solaris, and networking expertise from earlier roles. He often serves as the sole or lead infrastructure engineer, combining systems-level troubleshooting with pragmatic automation to keep teams moving. Based in the Knoxville area, he brings a practical, janitor’s mindset—willing to clean up messy systems and leave them more reliable and maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English