Who am I? 🕵️

Firstly, thanks for looking at my personal website. It's my warm and comfy 127.0.0.1. Warm your hands by the fireplace.

My name is Adam - I live in the northeast of London with my partner and little pup.

I wasn't always technically oriented; I originally studied English Literature at undergraduate level, with lofty aspirations of becoming the poet laureate. I soon discovered that you had to do quite a lot of reading of dry Jacobean texts so that idea died a death, and I transfigured into techie Adam.

Aside from being a dog dad, I love music (some of my favourite artists are Tame Impala and Maribou State), beer, reading and maybe sometimes some exercise to counteract the amount of Deliveroos I order.

Technical interests

I have a particular interest in building out amazing developer tooling, as I think all too often developer ease of use and experience falls by the wayside. I think Datadog is a great example of a complex product executed with this ethos in mind.

I have worked across a lot of programming languages in my career.

My perfect web stack nowdays would probably be something along the lines of:

• TypeScript
• Next.js
• Apollo (with all queries SSR-ed)
• Node.js custom server (w/ TypeScript)
• React + Hooks + Context API
• Styled Components
• Cypress
• Jest

So why are you here?

You may be a recruiter, you may just be an inquisitive internet traveller, who knows?

If you are looking to hire, I am always on the lookout for a role where I can have a great impact and influence the technical direction of the org, in both frontend and backend architecture. The key things I look for are a friendly culture, a group of passionate individuals who want to move fast and create something magical, and of course I still need to eat and also feed my little pup, so a salary.