Adam Dinwoodie
Senior Support Engineer at Profound Decisions
Enfield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAdam Dinwoodie is a Senior Support Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience in infrastructure-focused software engineering, currently working at Alianza after a long stint at Metaswitch and a transition supporting Azure for Operators at Microsoft. He combines deep technical troubleshooting and test-automation expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the Git test suite and full‑stack work on the Dreamwidth platform—with a talent for communicating complex issues clearly to customers and partners. Adam is equally practiced at building communities and safer workplaces, having founded employee networks and led inclusion initiatives across multiple organisations. He also volunteers as co-head of operations for a large LARP event, showing a knack for logistics, people management and restoring trust under pressure. This blend of technical depth, customer-facing support, and community leadership makes him effective at resolving both system faults and fractured working relationships.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at University of OxfordHigh School, High School at Range High SchoolHigh School, High School at King George V 6th Form College
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Github contributions (5)
dreamwidth/dreamwidth
May 2015 - May 2016
Dreamwidth's open source repository
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 18 PRs, 73 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Adam contributed to various aspects of the Dreamwidth platform. They addressed UTF-8 encoding errors, added a title attribute to the tag navigation button, and removed redundant multisearch navigation code. The user also corrected a Google Spreadsheets whitelist regex, marked unavailable commands in text, and made multiple UI/UX improvements, including renaming translations, replacing HTTP links with HTTPS, updating external service selectors, and wrapping long service names. Additionally, the user added GitHub integration to the user profile page.
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git/git
Aug 2015 - Dec 2022
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 commits in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Adam's primary contributions revolve around enhancing the test suite for the Git repository. They added and modified test cases, focusing on testing specific functionalities like Git svn, commit amending, and Windows path handling, including Cygwin support. Their work addressed identified bugs and vulnerabilities related to file name handling and permissions failures within the Git codebase. The user also refactored and improved existing tests to handle specific OS behaviors and ensure test coverage.
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