Adam England
Engineering Manager at Affirm
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam England is an engineering leader and operator with 20+ years of hands-on software experience and 14 years in senior leadership roles, currently serving as an Engineering Manager at Affirm. He specializes in scaling SaaS businesses—driving M&A activity on both buy and sell sides totaling nearly $3B, leading teams from single digits to 50+ engineers, and growing product revenue over 400%. Comfortable across architecture, DevOps, QA, and Agile transformations, he has shipped production systems on Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java, and modern front-end stacks while driving cloud-first engineering on AWS. As a former CTO and VP of Engineering, he blends boardroom strategy with implementation-level contributions, including security-focused open-source work enhancing the Brakeman Rails scanner with SonarQube output. Based in Kansas City, he is known for orchestrating cross-continental teams and turning testing and DevOps transformations into measurable business outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Truman State University
Github Skills (10)
ruby10
json10
brakeman10
static-analysis10
security10
ruby-rails9
security-scan9
rails9
vulnerabilities9
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
presidentbeef/brakeman
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Security Engineer
Backend Developer & Security EngineerContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on enhancing the Brakeman security scanner by adding support for SonarQube output, demonstrating an understanding of static analysis reporting. They implemented the necessary classes and methods to format Brakeman's findings into SonarQube's expected JSON structure. Further contributions included refactoring code, merging branches, and refining the output format to ensure accurate and efficient reporting of security vulnerabilities. The user also updated the project's documentation and configuration to accommodate the new features.
security-vulnerabilitysecurity-toolsbrakemanvulnerabilitiesvulnerability-scanner
rednovalabs/oauth-plugin
Mar 2015 - Aug 2018
Rails plugin for OAuth
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
railsomniauthrubyrails-pluginoauth2
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