Summary
Adam Forsythe-cheasley is a seasoned software engineer based in Bristol with over a decade of professional experience building reliable, scalable, and well-crafted web applications. He favors a stack centered on Postgres, Django, React and deployments on Heroku/AWS, but maintains a technology-agnostic approach focused on elegant solutions. His career spans digital democracy tooling at Delib, intranet and CMS work with Zope/Plone and Pyramid, and full-stack web and mobile app delivery, reflecting deep practical experience across both frontend and backend systems. Adam combines a creative background in music and visual art with a BSc in Mathematics, which informs a pragmatic yet imaginative approach to product design and problem solving. He has contributed to open-source Plone projects and authored core intranet product components, demonstrating a history of shipping reusable platform code. Colleagues describe him as a thoughtful engineer who balances craft, scalability, and user-focused design while quietly dreaming up better ways to build software.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics at The Open University
BA, Music, Visual Art, 2.1, BA, Music, Visual Art, 2.1 at University of Brighton