Rich Adams

Hi! I'm Rich, a British programmer living in San Francisco. I spend my nights waking people up and fighting crime^*. I also write about programming and web related things. You can check out my résumé if you're into that sort of thing. Say hi@richadams.me (use my PGP key if you like).

* The "fight crime" part might be made up...

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• hacker news → richadams
• twitter → @r_adams
• github → richadams
• speakerdeck → richadams
• launchpad → richadams
• instagram → richaadams
• linkedin → richaadams
• keybase → richadams

Here's what I'm currently up to,

• During the day, I'm an operations engineer at PagerDuty in San Francisco.
• Playing various security related CTF challenges for fun.
• Teaching myself Japanese (日本語), enough to have conversations with people whenever I'm in Japan.
• Occasionally putting up small projects on my GitHub account.
• Taking classes to learn Cantonese (广东话), because I apparently like a challenge.
• Constantly changing the code for my photo album site (and trying to become a better photographer).
• Attempting to travel around the world, because I love to travel and visit new places.

Here's some things I've built or worked on in the past,

• PagerDuty Notifier, a Chrome extension that shows desktop notifications for PagerDuty.
• I worked on cool stuff at Gracenote.
• Created a PHP wrapper for Gracenote's Rhythm API.
• Built パチラジオ (pach.io), a random playlist generator, as part of Music Hack Day Tokyo 2014.
• Created PHP and Java wrappers for Gracenote's Music Web API.
• jQuery Taphold, an event to detect when a user holds a click/tap for a set time.
• jQuery Tripleclick, an event to detect triple clicks.
• NagNOC, a fullscreen Nagios status monitor for a NOC or operations room.
• NagNOT, an IM/SMS notifier for Nagios.
• Added various security enhancements and plugins to Symphony, an open source project on GitHub.
• Word Zombies, a HTML5 game (built for a 24hr hackathon), where you shoot zombies by typing.
• I worked on baggage related parts of Amadeus Altéa Departure Control, a global airline departure control system.
• TrackTaste, a music recommendation engine I built for my final year Masters degree project.
• Some greasemonkey scripts and a Firefox toolbar for the LiveJournal support teams.

Here are some things I've written, or talks I've given,

• An Ignite talk on "PagerDuty's Failure Friday" for the "12 Talks of Cloudmas" Advanced AWS Meetup.
• I gave a talk on "Site Reliability Engineering in the Cloud" at USENIX SRECon14.
• My article on Amazon Web Services Tips was printed in Hacker Monthly Issue #46.
• My masters paper on "Music Recommendation using Collaborative Filtering with Similarity Fusion".