Adam Liddell
Senior Media Backend Engineer at Spotify
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Liddell is a Senior Media Backend Engineer based in London with 10 years of cross-stack experience building high-performance, resilient systems for real-time and mission-critical environments. He blends low-level C++ DSP and hardware troubleshooting with Python and Go back-end services, reproducible Bazel builds, Kubernetes deployments and reactive Vue front-ends. At Inmarsat/Viasat he led development and operational rollout of a TensorFlow-based phased-array beamforming system and a millisecond-scale adaptive signal filtering pipeline, and he remains focused on reliability with Patroni-backed Postgres failover and strong CI practices. He contributes to build-system tooling by refactoring Bazel rules for protobuf/gRPC across multiple languages, reflecting a practical attention to developer ergonomics and multi-language ecosystems. Colleagues rely on him for rapid on-site problem solving that spans software, hardware and RF systems—skills proven during multiple in-orbit test campaigns.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Central Sussex CollegeMaster’s Degree Physics, Master’s Degree Physics at Imperial College London
Github Skills (12)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
bazel10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
grpc10
csharp9
dotnet-core9
go9
javascript8
dt8
dword8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rules-proto-grpc/rules_proto_grpc
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
Bazel rules for building Protobuf and gRPC code and libraries from proto_library targets
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 26 reviews, 1180 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Adam's primary contributions involved refactoring and migrating existing rules for protocol buffers, gRPC code, and libraries within a Bazel build system. They focused on converting rules for C#, C++, D, Dart, Go, and JavaScript from aspect-based compilation to direct compilation. Their work included updating templates, adjusting build files, and ensuring that the functionality of the rules remained consistent with the repository's goals.
protocol-buffersbazelprotobufprotogrpc
aaliddell/rules_proto
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
Modern bazel build rules for protobuf / gRPC
Contributions:113 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
bazelprotobufgrpcstarlarkgrpc-protobuf
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