Adam Harper
Head Of Engineering at Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Central Lydbrook, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAdam Harper is a pragmatic engineering leader with over two decades of experience building software, teams, and operational systems, currently heading engineering at Cambridge University Press & Assessment. He has a track record of turning complex technical challenges into measurable business outcomes—cutting operational costs by 70%, increasing deployment frequency by 30%, and delivering an ML auto-marking system projected to reduce marking costs by 80%. Adam scales teams and processes as well as systems, having grown headcount by 50%, introduced a leadership layer, and rolled out DORA metrics that were adopted company-wide. He previously took Yapster from early-stage startup to acquisition, leading technical due diligence, ISO 27001 efforts, and rapid product launches that materially grew MRR. An advocate for making engineering legible, he focuses on metrics, documentation, and translating between technical reality and business strategy while building leaders beneath him. He also contributes practical database test tooling to open-source F# projects, showing a hands-on appetite for improving reliability at the infrastructure level.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (16)
databases10
fsharp10
oracle10
schema-design10
oracles10
sql10
schema10
database-design10
db-schema10
database10
database-schema10
testing10
dockers9
dotnet-new9
dotnet9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fsprojects/SQLProvider
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
A general F# SQL database erasing type provider, supporting LINQ queries, schema exploration, individuals, CRUD operations and much more besides.
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 issue in 1 day
Contributions summary:Adam focused on enhancing the Oracle database testing environment for the `sqlprovider` repository. Their contributions included adding an Oracle database instance setup with Docker, defining database schema and data initialization scripts, and modifying F# test scripts to interact with the Oracle database. They also made improvements to handle unique constraint violations and ensure tests could be run repeatedly, improving the reliability of the testing process. Furthermore, the user updated the code to include VIEWs in the table list returned for Oracle databases.
sqlserverfsharpcrudlinqcrud-operations
ah45/docker-zookeeper
Oct 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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