Adam Birds
Business Owner at THG
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Birds is a founder and hands-on CTO with nine years’ experience building scalable SaaS and web platforms, currently leading FlipLytics to help eBay sellers manage inventory, P&L and analytics. He spans the full stack—Python/Django, GraphQL, Celery on the backend and React/TypeScript, Vite and Tailwind on the frontend—while driving CI/CD, Docker deployments and feature-flagged releases. As owner of ADB Web Designs and ADB Software Solutions he blends bespoke client work with product thinking, from WordPress sites to asynchronous chatbots for Discord and Twitch. His hosting and systems background (UKFast, THG, HW Technology) gives him an operational edge for reliability and backup-driven resilience in production. An active open-source contributor, he has extended Zulip with multiple webhook integrations, showing a pragmatic approach to integration and testing. Based in England and studying Computing & IT, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a practical focus on solving real business problems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computing and IT (Software), Bachelor of Science Computing and IT (Software) at The Open UniversityA-Levels Computer Science, A-Levels Computer Science at St John Rigby CollegeGCSEs Information Technology, GCSEs Information Technology at Up Holland High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
apim10
python10
api-design10
django10
webhooks10
api10
testing9
zabbix9
appveyor9
ansible-tower9
javascript8
json7
github-ci7
githubaction-workflow7
documentation7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
zulip/zulip
Jun 2018 - May 2021
Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 reviews, 59 commits, 29 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the Zulip project by adding and modifying webhook integrations. They implemented webhooks for Zabbix, Ansible Tower, AppVeyor, and other services. These changes involved defining message formats, creating tests, and integrating them with the existing Zulip webhook framework, using Python and Django. The user also updated documentation and fixed minor issues related to existing integrations.
zulippythonpython3chatjavascript
adambirds/docker-compose-action
Apr 2023 - Sep 2024
Github Action for Docker Compose with support for running tests.
Contributions:7 releases, 18 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 5 months
docker-compose
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