Adam Crofts
Software Architecture Chapter Lead at Jaguar Land Rover
Royal Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Crofts is a software architecture leader with 11 years’ experience architecting connected car and infotainment systems at Jaguar Land Rover, now heading the Software Architecture chapter. He blends deep hands-on skills in web technologies (HTML5/JS/Node.js), cloud services and embedded Linux/QNX with practical systems thinking around OTA delivery, authentication and API design. Adam has contributed to industry-standard vehicle data modeling—adding signals and features to the COVESA Vehicle Signal Specification—and co-authored a W3C vehicle information specification, showing his influence on automotive standards. Known for structured problem solving and supplier-facing delivery, he pairs technical craft with mentoring and cross-functional coordination. Based in Royal Leamington Spa, he brings an engineer’s rigor from an MEng in Electronic and Communication Engineering to complex vehicle software challenges.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Electronic and Communication Engineering, First Class Honours, Master of Engineering (MEng), Electronic and Communication Engineering, First Class Honours at Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
Spanish
Github Skills (7)
standardized10
describe10
signal10
specification10
automotive10
electric-vehicles10
w3c9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
COVESA/vehicle_signal_specification
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
Vehicle Signal Specification - standardized way to describe automotive data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to defining and extending a vehicle signal specification, focusing on adding new signals and attributes related to vehicle features. They implemented signals for HMI, fuel systems, battery management, convertible roof status, and OBD data, indicating a focus on automotive data modeling. The contributions involved modifying VSpec files, which suggests a domain-specific language or data format is used for defining these signals. The changes are focused on enriching the existing vehicle signal specification with new automotive features.
signaldescribeautomotivespecificationvehicle
acrofts84/automotive
May 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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