Adam Surak

// Hacker. Builder. Curious Mind.

Currently hacking on infrastructure in Paris, France. Driven by curiosity and a relentless pursuit of knowledge.

[email protected]

$ cat career_timeline.log

Head of Platform @ BeReal

April 2023 - July 2024

> Platform Engineering
> CDN, Authentication, Core Services, CLoud Infrastructure, Trust and Safety engineering, Security, Corporate IT
> Resigned after acquisition by Voodoo and new leadership taking over

bereal.com

VP Engineering, Infrastructure and Security @ Algolia

July 2021 - February 2023

> Building and scaling autonomous organization of >50 engineers and managers across security, development, platform, SRE, DevOps and infrastructure operations teams.
> Developing autonomous management teams > My organization supported 1.5 trillion search queries every year for 500 million users without sacrificing privacy of people around the world

www.algolia.com

Senior Director of Infrastructure @ Algolia

August 2020 - July 2021

> Scaling infrastructure, security and teams behind them

www.algolia.com

Director of Infrastructure @ Algolia

December 2016 - August 2020

> Leading Foundation - SRE, infrastructure, automation, configuration management, cloud, bare-metal
> Leading Monitoring - team working on our monitoring system tailored to specific needs of Algolia infrastructure
> Leading Security - company-wide security team promoting and ensuring application of best practices, incident response, secure design review, penetration testing, security assessments, ...
> Leading IT - corporate IT of global company operations including the HW, OS management (macOS, Windows, Linux), AV, workstation security, office networks, ...
> Leading the company through first SOC2 audit.

www.algolia.com

SRE & Security Engineer @ Algolia

September 2014 - December 2016

> First Ops hire
> Scaled infrastructure from 2 to 16 regions
> Introduced configuration management and automation
> Handled 4B+ daily API calls
> Maintained application stack

www.algolia.com

Research & Teaching Assistant @ Tampere University of Technology

January 2013 - July 2014

> Work is now part of 5G standard
> Prototyping and development
> Tought network laboratory courses for Master Degree students (200+ students)
> Lecturer and laboratory assitant for P2P Networks course (40+ students)

www.algolia.com

Founder & CTO @ Creontech

October 2011 - August 2013

> Lead programmer and technology architect at startup Pikr, focused on peer to peer marketplace of tasks (like TaskRabbit)
> Leader of division providing services in web development, webdesign, graphics and outsourcing with aim to newly established companies

System Administrator @ MSV STUDENKA

July 2004 - December 2012

> Led the development of ICT infrastructure and services from 2 person and 1 small office company to 50 persons and 2 locations company

www.msvstudenka.cz

Network Engineer @ LanCraft

July 2004 - December 2012

> Led the development of ICT infrastructure and services from 2 person and 1 small office company to 50 persons and 2 locations company

www.lancraft.cz

Founder & Lead Developer @ Project-Creon

January 2007 - December 2009

> Realtime multiplayer web-based game

www.lancraft.cz

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