I'm a technology leader with over 20 years of experience. Initially in software development, more recently in leadership roles, working primarily in finance, but also with experience in biotech and visualisation, simulation and messaging middleware. I'm leading a department of around 40 developers, quality specialists, technical writers and infrastructure specialists. Wherever I've worked, I've been involved in building teams, both in talent and culture, and in promoting innovation.
I've led internationally distributed teams to deliver projects both for customers and internally. I've always found myself able to pick up the technologies and skills needed to work effectively in new environments. As a lifelong learner, I've gained a masters from UCL in Visualisation and separately a masters from the OU in philosophy while working full time. I hold an online certificate in Asset Management from the Wharton school, which I studied as a way of deepening my knowledge of the Asset Management business.
I've used technologies and languages across the gamut. Most recently focussing on web technologies, but I've programmed professionally in C#, javascript (top 1% stackoverflow), scala, java, lua, go, VBA, and have dabbled with elixir, erlang, rust, python, haskell, scheme, clojure and many more. I enjoy working in technology stacks that are unfamiliar as I find that different perspectives can be valuable, even in different domains.
Though I've lots of experience developing software as part of teams, building up others and sharing knowledge is also important to me, so I've presented both internally on emerging technology topics like blockchain, but also externally, at the British Computer Society annual conference on the real time web (2010), HTML5 web apps (2011) and the future of web development (2014). At Caplin, I posted regularly to the Caplin tech blog, including a post explaining some of the more confusing aspects of javascript that was picked up by hackernews and reddit and eventually brought down the blog server.
I'm a fan of agile methodologies - particuarly the focus on delivering value to customers and the commitment to continuous improvement. I've been using agile techniques since reading the extreme programming book in 2004. For most of that time I've followed a scrum process professionally, so I recently made it official and acquired a Professional Scrum Master (PSM) certification.
You can contact me by email at me@adamiley.com or phone on +44 7854433517.