Adam Alton
Co-Founder at FidlLeaf
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAdam Alton is a seasoned software engineer and serial co-founder with 14 years building web applications for clients from Google and the BBC to governments, banks and Protocol Labs. As CTO of FidlLeaf and co-founder of multiple startups, he blends hands-on backend and DevOps work with product and team leadership, having helped grow Potato from 5 to 100 people. Pragmatic and business-minded, he favors shipping the right solution over perfecting unnecessary complexity and documents code to help his future self (and teammates) pick up where he left off. He contributes to open-source projects such as web3.storage, improving backend, infra and rate-limiting for IPFS/Filecoin tooling. A trained musician by background, Adam brings creative problem-solving and public-speaking ease to technical debates and developer mentorship. He excels equally as a solo maker and as a leader guiding appraisal and growth processes across teams.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
King Edward VI College, TotnesBA (Hons) Music, Music performance and production, BA (Hons) Music, Music performance and production at Liverpool Institute For Performing Arts
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Github Skills (13)
storage10
nodejs10
api10
apidoc10
email-notifications10
p2p9
devops9
postgresql9
cloudflare-workers9
libp2p9
ipfs9
filecoin8
database-management8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
web3-storage/web3.storage
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
DEPRECATED ⁂ The simple file storage service for IPFS & Filecoin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:128 reviews, 59 commits, 83 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Adam's primary contributions involve back-end and infrastructure improvements. They made changes to the cron package, including modifying database settings, and added email notification functionality for storage quota usage. Further contributions include adding rate limiting to the client library. The user was also involved in refactoring and improving the API's logging.
ipfsfilestoragefilecoinp2pfile-storage
adamalton/django-choices
Nov 2014 - Jan 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 3 years 2 months
djangochoicespythonhandy
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