Adam Clarkson
Senior Engineering Manager at Ocado Technology
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAdam Clarkson is a Senior Engineering Manager with 13 years of experience leading teams to improve delivery velocity, quality, and developer experience within large-scale ecommerce platforms. Based in St Albans, he currently manages Engineering Managers and senior ICs at Ocado Technology, driving flexibility, configuration and internal frameworks that serve global retail partners. He progressed from hands-on build-and-release engineering—migrating CI/CD pipelines and automating deployments across dozens of microservices—to founding and scaling a multidisciplinary Production Engineering team across the UK and Barcelona. Adam combines a rigorous academic background (PhD research in augmented reality content delivery) with practical expertise in CI/CD, AWS, GitLab and bespoke tooling, and is known for empowering autonomous team leads while enabling specialists to solve cross-department problems. Notably, he turned an initial three-person test-focused squad into a nine-person, department-wide influence, improving release speed and stability at scale.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science (Software Engineering), BSc, Computer Science (Software Engineering) at Durham UniversityPhD, Computer Science (Software Engineering), PhD, Computer Science (Software Engineering) at University of Durham
English
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Github Skills (19)
json9
kotlin9
rest-services9
xml9
rest-api8
groovy8
rest8
java8
dsl8
testing7
http7
test-automation7
jasmine6
ecmascript6
rest-client6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ajclarkson/frankly
Jan 2013 - Dec 2014
Contributions:40 commits in 1 year 11 months
ajclarkson/dotfiles
Jun 2015 - May 2022
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
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