Adam Alpern
Senior ICloud Software Engineer at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Alpern is a principal-level senior iCloud software engineer in San Francisco with over two decades of experience designing and delivering high-performance API and infrastructure services across C++, Java, and Go. He specializes in multithreaded systems, network protocols, REST/gRPC services, and performance-driven architecture, with a track record of scaling systems—from a lockless C++ cache that handled 1,200 msgs/sec on low-end hardware to cloud services that survived 100x holiday load spikes. His background spans platform work at OpenTable, Urban Airship, Anki, and Apple, including building reusable Go frameworks, a unified public REST API, and operational tooling like the open-source Tessera metrics front-end. Notably, he started programming at age eight and even implemented std::basic_string from the draft ISO C++ spec early in his career, reflecting deep, language-level expertise.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, BA, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence at Hampshire CollegeStuyvesant High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
json10
rest-api10
ruby10
object-oriented-programming9
data-structures8
data-structure8
http6
wsdl6
code-generation6
singleton6
rest6
django6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
adelevie/parse-ruby-client
Jan 2012 - Jan 2012
A simple Ruby client for the parse.com REST API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to building a Ruby client for the parse.com REST API. They implemented core functionalities like object creation, retrieval, updating, and deletion, centralizing HTTP calls and response handling. The user refactored code for a gem structure and added support for increment/decrement operations. Furthermore, they incorporated query functionalities, including the ability to filter objects based on various criteria.
apiruby-clientrubyrestrest-api
aalpern/stasher
May 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:33 commits, 7 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 9 months
apistashrest-clientrestatlassian
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