Adam Thomas.

Privitar was recently acquired by Informatica. I have continued my role within Informatica, with a renewed focus on integrating Privitar's data security and privacy products into Informatica's existing platform.

As an Engineering Manager I have a key role in ensuring a smooth transition. I am also involved in integration work relating to the UI of the products.

My role expanded to include Engineering Management responsbilities. I am responsible for the engineers in my team, including creating an environment for them in which they can thrive. I have continued to grow the companies UI function, which positively impacted our product. I work closely with UX and Product to deliver product features and facilitate alignment of my team.

I designed and oversaw a move from a horizontal UI team to a vertical structure with UI devs integrated with other teams; as well as the formation of a new UI Initiatives team.

For part of this period I also managed the Platform team, which tackled the core architecture of the product. Many features were delivered between my time between UI and Platform.

I also work on tasks directly, and sit on the Architecture Forum to represent Front End interests.

I joined Privitar as their first front-end lead to spearheaded the creation of the UI team from the ground up, with the goal of modernizing the front-end infrastructure for both new and existing products.

The team worked on the removal of a legacy UI framework that was replaced by React and TypeScript; with the view to an ambitious UI road map. The project involved a significant conversion of an existing enterprise Java UI application based on Vaadin. My responsibilities also included line management.

I continued to on-board Java/back end developers onto the UI stack in this position, in tandem with my belief that a good front end team must understand all aspects of the product.

The project involved the creation of a new React based framework to make building screens using the new APIs as simple as possible to improve dev efficiency. I was responsible for the technical leadership in architecting this framework, documenting it and mentoring my colleagues.

I continued my responsibilities as lead for the companies UI developer team, working on a vast transformation of Alfa’s core product (in house UI framework) to a single page application (React/TypeScript). This work is at a high scale; working on an enterprise application that comprises of hundreds of screens.

I actively maintained and delivered UI training inside the company, and mentored colleagues on our UI stack.

I architected the companies underlying UI framework which was used to deliver features to clients in the asset finance industry.

I joined Alfa's R&D team as a JavaScript expert to work on the front end of Alfa's best-in-class asset finance management platform. Alfa had recently completed an IPO.

I drove transformative web & mobile projects within the company using React, React Native and a modern JS stack.

I led the development of a substantial technical and design restructure of the products existing enterprise-scale UI. In addition, I applied my UI knowledge to new R&D greenfield initiatives within the company for web & mobile.

As part of my work, I developed a visual interface for a credit decision system, and improved the application performance by 30% via conversion to an SPA.

Managing a small team of developers, I am responsible for the technical strategy and delivery of Five By Five's web and mobile projects.

I had a key role throughout these projects in communicating with clients and determining their requirements.

This remained a very hands on role. I primarily worked with a Node, Express, React and Redux stack to achieve deliverables on tight timescales. This work was very varied and included a social app for wine, calculators for opticians, brand sites for high street stores, customer feedback systems, and more.

During this role I introduced the company to CI (Gitlab CI) and server automation (Ansible) as part of a significant dev ops restructure.

I contributed to Five By Five's web technology projects for clients such as Activision, 2K, GAP and CooperVision.

As Senior Developer, I was involved in all aspects of the software development lifecycle. By utilising my expertise in modern web applications that I bought to the team, I was able to produce new and engaging experiences for Five By Five's many projects. I introduced a Node, Express, React and Redux stack to the team, which became a core part of our work.

Ad Venture was an early stage startup that provided targeted, frame accurate ad switching and ad delivery platforms for live TV, based on new streaming technologies.

As the Lead Developer & Head of Technology, I shaped our core platform and technical strategy by building and scaling back and front end systems. I was deeply involved in forging the direction of the business and negotiating partnerships with other technology providers.

This remained a very hands on role. I primarily worked with a Node, Express, React and Redux stack to achieve deliverables on tight timescales. This work was very varied and included a social app for wine, calculators for opticians, brand sites for high street stores, customer feedback systems, and more.

I consistently achieved 1st class grades on average for all 4 years of my degree. I won an award for the "Best Final Year Student on the Computer Science & Software Engineering course at University of Southampton" from the British Computer Society Hampshire Branch.

In the final masters year, I focused primarily on Web Science and programming the web. The course at the University of Southampton contains strong individual and group elements. From a technical perspective the course focuses primarily on Java, but in the latter years gives a wider variation and focus on web services stacks.

Despite knowing prospects are unlikely to care, im very proud to have received nine A*'s at GCSE level 🤓. For the A-Level courses I achieved AAAB (full A2) in Physics, Electronics, Computing and Maths respectively.