Adam Flockton
Recruiting Lead at Wayve
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Flockton is a Recruiting Lead with 11 years of experience specialising in sourcing and hiring top engineering and AI talent for high-growth mobility and robotics ventures. Currently at Wayve, he partners with C-suite and VP stakeholders to build teams that blend machine learning, perception and systems engineering, drawing on a track record of scaling teams across EMEA and globally at Meta and AID. He combines data-driven hiring strategies with strong employer branding and candidate experience practices, and has onboarded and mentored cross-regional recruiting teams while improving hiring processes. Unusually for a recruiter, Adam also contributes to front-end open-source work (notably on Facebook’s Lexical editor), giving him practical product empathy when assessing technical candidates. Based in San Francisco, he thrives at the intersection of embodied AI, mobility and talent strategy, helping organisations hire for technically ambitious missions.
11 years of coding experience
International Business Management (B.A) Finance Management Marketing and Operations, International Business Management (B.A) Finance Management Marketing and Operations at University of Lincoln
Github Skills (12)
typescript10
javascript10
user-interface10
typescripts10
text-editor10
editor10
react10
typescript-types10
user-experience9
exp9
code-formatting8
coding-style8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/lexical
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Lexical is an extensible text editor framework that provides excellent reliability, accessibility and performance.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 557 reviews, 159 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the development of the Lexical text editor framework, focusing on implementing and testing new features. Their work included adding support for horizontal rules, as well as creating and integrating a Twitter node, and enhancing existing toolbar plugins. They also addressed UI and UX issues, fixed bugs related to selection and rendering, and made code style changes.
accessibilitytext-editor
thegreatercurve/json-cyclic
Jul 2018 - May 2019
Small utility library to replace circular references in JavaScript with JSONPaths
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 30 pushes in 9 months
circular-referencejavascript
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