Adam Hill
Tech Lead at The Motley Fool
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Summary
🤩
RockstarAdam Hill is a seasoned tech lead with 15 years of experience building scalable web and enterprise systems, currently driving architecture and delivery at The Motley Fool from Alexandria, VA. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering—evidenced by contributions to the popular django-unicorn reactive components project—with strategic leadership in product, APIs, search, and ML-enabled user experiences. At The Motley Fool he has led cross-functional efforts replacing legacy systems with Elasticsearch, prototyped GraphQL and API gateways, and delivered user-facing ML prototypes alongside data scientists. His background spans roles from CTO to software architect, overseeing large teams, multi-million dollar budgets, and high-traffic e-commerce and survey platforms. Known for coaching and culture work as much as technical design, he repeatedly pairs pragmatic engineering with measurable business impact, such as improving conversion rates and scaling systems to hundreds of thousands of users. Unexpectedly for a leader, he still contributes code across frontend JavaScript and backend Python, keeping close to the craft while shaping technical strategy.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
javascript10
fullstack-development10
full-stack10
python10
django10
web-frontend9
frontend9
web-framework9
css7
html7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
adamghill/django-unicorn
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
The magical reactive component framework for Django ✨
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:82 releases, 28 reviews, 695 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Adam contributed to the development of the Django Unicorn framework by implementing core features and improving existing components. They wrote example template files, added support for new form elements, and refactored component interactions. The commits show involvement in both frontend JavaScript and backend Python, demonstrating a full-stack development focus on this Django project.
pythondjangojavascriptfrontend-frameworkcomponent-framework
adamghill/djajax
Feb 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.