Adam Mccann
Co-founder & CEO at Various Startups
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAdam Mccann is a technical founder and CEO with 14+ years building and exiting startups, now leading Claimer to simplify claiming government financial incentives for accountants and tax advisors using AI-driven, enterprise-grade technology. He has steered products that touch nearly a third of UK advisor-submitted R&D claims and counts major tax advisors and auditors among customers. Earlier exits include selling a network of gaming publishing properties in a seven-figure deal, and he began his entrepreneurship journey at university building a profitable publishing platform from scratch. A hands-on engineer by training (BSc Software Engineering) and active open-source contributor, he enhanced PHP gettext tooling to improve internationalization support for templated apps. Adam combines operator experience, technical depth, and ecosystem connections through communities like On Deck and ICE, and he invests as an angel in early-stage startups.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.sc. (Hons) Software Engineering, B.sc. (Hons) Software Engineering at University of Brighton
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Github Skills (17)
rails-i18n10
internationalization10
phpunit10
php10
ember-i18n10
i18n-js10
gettext10
twig10
internet-explorer6
vuejs26
orm6
vue6
css6
javascript6
eloquent6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
php-gettext/Gettext
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
PHP library to collect and manipulate gettext (.po, .mo, .php, .json, etc)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Localization Specialist
Back-end Developer & Localization SpecialistContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on extending the functionality of the `php-gettext/gettext` library. Their contributions included the development of a Twig extractor to parse gettext strings from Twig templates. They also added tests to ensure the proper extraction of translations, and modified the Twig extractor to allow for custom Twig extensions. The user's work directly supports the internationalization and localization capabilities of the library.
collecttranslationphpinternationalizationgettext
ClaimerApp/copper-sdk
May 2019 - Jun 2022
Unofficial Copper CRM SDK written in Python
Contributions:26 commits, 24 PRs, 29 pushes in 3 years 1 month
pythoncrm-sdksdkcoppercrm
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