Adam Ferguson
Senior Software Engineer
Profile
Senior software engineer with 15+ years in full-stack web development, cloud/DevOps, and machine learning. Comfortable owning systems end to end — architecture, deployment pipelines, ML model services, and the web apps that use them — with a bias toward simple, reliable solutions.
Skills
- Languages
- Go, Python, TypeScript / JavaScript, Ruby, SQL
- Cloud & DevOps
- AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- Backend & APIs
- Node.js / Express, Ruby on Rails, FastAPI, GraphQL, REST, PostgreSQL
- Frontend
- React / Redux, TypeScript, HTML / CSS
- Data & ML
- Pandas, scikit-learn, XGBoost, PostgreSQL / Redshift, Data pipelines
Experience
Senior Software Engineer · Delta Bravo
Jul 2020 — Present Startup delivering machine-learning solutions to manufacturing clients.
- Built ML models (Pandas, scikit-learn, XGBoost) to optimize manufacturing processes.
- Shipped web apps to visualize model predictions (React, FastAPI, Hasura, PostgreSQL).
- Owned deployment: Helm charts, Terraform modules, and CI/CD on Kubernetes.
Senior AI Developer · Ally Financial
Aug 2019 — Jun 2020 DevOps and service development for AI features in online banking.
- Built CI/CD for multiple AI services — Terraform for AWS, Helm for OpenShift, Jenkins.
- Led adoption of Rasa as the core of Ally's chatbot platform.
- Developed and tested AWS Lambda functions for the existing Lex-based bot.
Senior Software Engineer · InVue Security Inc.
Apr 2017 — Aug 2019 Hardware- and software-based retail security solutions.
- Led 'Access Manager': React + Node.js/Express/PostgreSQL, a Java app server, and a native Android setup app; provisioned to GCP.
- Led 'Insight', a compliance reporting app: React/Redux + Node.js, with serverless device comms.
- Owned features, performance work, and sysadmin for 'Microsigns' (Node/PostgreSQL, AngularJS).
Data Engineer / App Dev Consultant · Ferguson Software Services (Mood Media)
Jan 2015 — Mar 2017 Systems integration, ETL, and web application development.
- Integrated multiple internal systems via ETL (Python, SQLAlchemy).
- Migrated a data-warehouse solution from MongoDB to Redshift.
- Built and maintained several Ruby on Rails apps with React/Backbone frontends.
Web Development Consultant · Ally Financial (OpenSystems)
Aug 2014 — Jan 2015 Senior Software Engineer · Technekes / Connexiolabs
Feb 2013 — Aug 2014 Senior Software Developer · Mood Media / Muzak LLC
Jul 2011 — Feb 2013 Education
Economics · Virginia Tech — Masters - NSF IGERT Fellow
May 2004 — May 2006 Economics & Business Information Technology · Virginia Tech — Bachelors
Aug 2000 — May 2004 Awards
- Outstanding Senior in Economics - Class of 2004 — Virginia Tech Economics Dept. (May 2004)