Adam Schwartz

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

—Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

Education

Major: Computer Science
Minor: Philosophy
GPA: 3.78
College Honors
Awards
- 2018: Wendell M. Stanley Senior Scholar-Athlete Award
- 2015, 2017: All-HCAC Sportsmanship Award, Heartland College Athletic Conference, Division III Men’s Tennis
- 2013: Earlham Dean’s Scholarship

Software Engineer for the Refugee and Asylum directorate of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

Feature development and maintenance on a large Ruby on Rails application.
Worked on several projects to migrate core platform functionality into standalone services such as messaging, notification delivery, and file uploads.
Lead frontend engineer for several Vue.js single-page-apps (SPAs) to improve user experience and take advantage of new backend services and product features.
Assisted with platform upgrades, deployments, and monitoring of production services on AWS.
Primary Technologies: Go, JavaScript, Ruby, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS

10 week internship with Indianapolis TechPoint Xtern program, https://techpoint.org/xtern/
Developed a tool to generate an SDK for all public APIs by extracting metadata from the Healthx source code.
This SDK made it easier for customers to integrate with the Healthx platform by providing client libraries that handle OAuth authentication, request validation, and documentation with examples for common operations.
Primary technologies: Java, C#, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, OpenAPI

Participated in weekly faculty meetings to address concerns, ideas, and questions from fellow students.

Three month summer internship with non-profit, http://www.adoptapet.com/
Participated in company meetings and worked on various new features, bug fixes, and automated tests.
Primary technologies: Perl, PHP, PostgreSQL, Go, OpenAPI, AWS

Managed High Performance Compute Clusters (HPC) that support student work and faculty research across various departments including: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Computer Science.
https://cs.earlham.edu/applied-groups/CCG.php
Primary Technologies: Linux, RHEL, CentOS, Xen, Torque PBS, InfiniBand, 10GbE

Organized and lead a one-week web design course on HTML5 technologies and web hosting.

What’s the deal with Emacs? I thought Vim was better anyway? Why should I switch from Visual Studio Code? Emacs is weird. Let’s take a look at what makes Emacs unique and highlight how it has inspired the software we use everyday.

When it comes to compiling your programs, Go has a few tricks up its sleeve. Build tags are a versatile tool that provide a means to conditionally compile files into your Go program. In this talk we will write a make-believe serverless function that uses build tags to substitute package main so that we can develop and debug our program locally, while still being able to deploy a “pure” production binary. As a bonus, we will look at setting package variables using the ldflags -X option (see go doc cmd/link).

Let’s explore text editing as a tool for thought as we examine the way of EMACS. This talk covers the history of text editors as well as what sets them apart from commercial software and IDEs.

Go modules give us new ways to manage the dependencies in our own apps and packages. This talk explores how to substitute package versions or branches on the fly using replace, exclude, and go get.

present is a neat tool that offers some unique features for giving talks about code. This talk covers how to embed images, websites, and live source code into your presentation as well as address some of the trade-offs you have to make when choosing present over traditional slide-making software.

It’s easy to get lost and overwhelmed with software development and start to lose interest or motivation when working on projects. I’ve found it helpful to mix things up and remember to spend time on things you enjoy. This talk shares some of the ways I have been managing my happiness and how it’s impacted my work.