Adam Barr

VP of Engineering

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States28 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in leading engineering teams for CI/CD solutions.
  • Proven track record in enhancing service resiliency and security.
  • Strong background in Agile methodologies and software quality assurance.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS engineering leader with expertise in CI/CD and software quality.

Contact

LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Software EngineeringContinuous IntegrationSecurityAgile MethodologiesSoftware Quality AssuranceTest Management

Other Skills

GitHub ActionsCI/CDEngineering LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentService ResiliencyAzure DevOpsDevOpsLive Site ProcessesAgilityTeam Foundation ServerBuild AutomationTFSTestingVisual StudioTest Automation

About

Leading software engineering teams focused on improving service availability, resiliency, security, and SRE practices for Azure DevOps at Microsoft.

Experience

28 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
23 yrs
Average Tenure
5 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Github

Senior Director Of Engineering

Jul 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 9 mos · Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States

  • Leading a strong, diverse engineering team that is building GitHub Actions, enabling secure and fast CI/CD for GitHub users and the compute platform for agentic workloads on GitHub.
GitHub ActionsCI/CDEngineering LeadershipSoftware EngineeringContinuous Integration

Microsoft

4 roles

Principal Group Engineering Manager

Oct 2019 – Jul 2020 · 9 mos

Principal Software Engineer Lead

Apr 2018 – Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Leading a team of engineers focused on improving service resiliency and security in Azure DevOps and our customers.
Service ResiliencySecurityAzure DevOpsSoftware Engineering

Principal Software Engineer

Promoted

Nov 2014 – Apr 2018 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Focused on DevOps and Live Site processes, tools, and culture in the Visual Studio Online team to improve agility and quality.
DevOpsLive Site ProcessesAgilitySoftware EngineeringAgile Methodologies

Principal Test Manager

Jul 1997 – Nov 2014 · 17 yrs 4 mos

  • Test manager for Team Foundation Server, including its hosted service, tfs.visualstudio.com.
  • Previously test lead for deployment and administration, build automation, web interface, and version control feature areas of Team Foundation Server.
Team Foundation ServerTest ManagementBuild AutomationSoftware Quality Assurance

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

BS — Computer Engineering

Jan 1992 – Jan 1997

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