Adam Gamble

Staff-level engineer with 14+ years building and operating highly available, cloud-native platforms, including a 500M+ message asynchronous pipeline and a 140-property integration platform. Deep hands-on experience with Go, Kubernetes, and GCP, designing self-service infrastructure and developer tooling that lets product teams ship independently. Known for mentoring engineers, leading technical delivery, and treating observability and reliability as first-class product concerns.

Senior Software Engineer | Tech Lead at Sonder Holdings LLP (2023-03 – 2026-08)

• Led the technical delivery of Sonder's Marriott partnership integration, building a high-performance channel-management platform in Go that syncs hotel inventory, reservations, and pricing with Marriott's global booking ecosystem.
• Designed and implemented service-oriented hybrid APIs in Go and Node.js, supporting 140+ properties and 7,700+ rooms while bridging on-premises data with cloud workflows on GCP.
• Architected and operated a large-scale asynchronous processing pipeline using Kafka and Pub/Sub that safely handles 500M+ messages with over 99.98% successful delivery, including event routing, dead-letter handling, and replay strategies.
• Built a self-service internal developer portal on Kubernetes that lets product teams provision namespaces, deploy services, and manage configuration independently, reducing platform team toil by roughly 30%.
• Extended the Kubernetes platform with custom controllers and operators written in Go to automate certificate rotation, secret injection, and canary deployments for 40+ microservices.
• Migrated legacy VM-based workloads to GKE, designing multi-zone node pools and pod disruption budgets that improved availability to 99.99% and cut infrastructure costs by 18%.
• Implemented observability with Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana across all services, creating dashboards and alerts that reduced mean time to detection from 15 minutes to under 3 minutes.
• Strengthened authentication and authorization by integrating OAuth 2.0 and JWT-based access controls into internal APIs, and automating secret rotation with HashiCorp Vault.
• Led the adoption of Terraform for infrastructure as code, standardizing modules for GCP projects, VPCs, and GKE clusters, which cut environment provisioning time from days to under an hour.
• Mentored four mid-level engineers through code reviews, design sessions, and pairing, with two promoted to senior within 18 months.
• Partnered with product and data teams in Agile ceremonies to define SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, aligning reliability work with customer-facing booking flows.
• Integrated AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot into the team's workflow, improving test coverage and reducing boilerplate coding time by an estimated 20%.

Senior Software Engineer at Emids (2021-01 – 2023-03)

• Contributed to a large-scale cloud migration and integration initiative, modernizing legacy on-premise healthcare payer applications and preparing critical workloads for GCP.
• Developed Go-based microservices to replace monolithic Java components, improving throughput and reducing latency for claims processing by 40%.
• Designed and implemented RESTful APIs for member eligibility and claims status, consumed by internal teams and external partners.
• Built event-driven data pipelines using Kafka to stream patient and claims data into BigQuery for analytics, enabling near real-time reporting.

Senior Software Engineer at Cognizant Softvision (2019-01 – 2021-01)

• Engineered backend services in Node.js and Python to process approximately 12 million scanned handwritten exam scripts annually, ensuring timely delivery of 3.7M+ exam results.
• Designed a scalable architecture on GCP that handled seasonal demand spikes from 38,000+ temporary examiners during peak exam-processing periods.

Software Engineer at Arrow Digital (2012-03 – 2019-01)

• Developed and maintained full-stack web applications using JavaScript, Node.js, and React for clients across retail and healthcare.
• Built RESTful APIs and integrated third-party services such as payment gateways and CRM systems.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science – Florida Atlantic University