Adam Duncan
Tech Lead at Waggel
United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAdam Duncan is a Tech Lead with 14+ years designing and delivering high-performance backend systems for web and mobile, now leading platform work at Waggel. A Node.js and TypeScript specialist since the early days of Node 0.4, he combines deep hands-on engineering—spanning CI/CD, infrastructure automation and complex API integrations—with a strong appreciation for React/Next on the frontend. He has architected microservices on AWS (DynamoDB, ECS/Fargate, SQS, Lambda) and built high-traffic, integrated platforms for clients like Riot Games and major publishers. An open-source contributor to Strider CI/CD, his work spans both UI enhancements and backend refactors, reflecting a pragmatic full-stack perspective. MongoDB certified and repeatedly recognised by peers (three-time employee of the year), he’s known for rapidly learning new systems and turning ambiguous requirements into reliable, maintainable production services.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computing, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computing at Bournemouth University
Github Skills (11)
continuous-deployment10
javascript10
nodejs10
continuous-integration10
angular9
html9
emberjs8
css8
git7
mongodb6
mongodb-database6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Strider-CD/strider
Dec 2013 - Oct 2014
Open Source Continuous Integration & Deployment Server
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:47 commits, 2 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Adam contributed to both front-end and back-end aspects of the Strider CI/CD server. They added a branch column to the dashboard and project pages, indicating front-end work, and refactored build notifications into a separate plugin and mail sending functionality into an npm module. Further contributions included removing badge code, prototyping branch management features, and integrating global admin permissions. These changes highlight a focus on both user interface enhancements and backend system refactoring.
devopsdeploymentcontinuousdockerkubernetes
microadam/airproxy
Feb 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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