Adam Mckerlie
Eng Leader at Common Room
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAdam Mckerlie is an engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling high-impact systems, currently leading engineering at Common Room after senior roles at Vidyard, Replicant, Sentry and G Adventures. He blends hands-on backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the open-source Flagr feature-flagging service—with executive-level strategy, having grown product SKUs to eight figures and managed organizations of 60+ engineers and multi-million dollar budgets. Known for creating low-code bot builders, launching engineering blogs to amplify technical voice, and building cross-functional processes that align product and engineering, he thrives at the intersection of execution and vision. Adam pairs strong hiring and mentorship instincts with a track record of shipping customer-facing platforms that drive revenue and operational efficiency. Based in Toronto, he also launched and ran a direct-to-consumer tea subscription business, showing an appetite for product-led entrepreneurship. I'm a little teapot🫖
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing Honours, Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration, Bachelor of Computing Honours, Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration at University of Guelph
English
Stackoverflow
2,862reputation
313kreached
51answers
18questions
django
top-5%
Github Skills (29)
api-rest10
back-end-development10
api-design10
feature-toggle10
restful-api10
toggle10
feature-flags10
runtime-configuration10
go10
rest-api10
backend10
autoconfiguration10
testing9
go-testing9
django9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openflagr/flagr
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Flagr is a feature flagging, A/B testing and dynamic configuration microservice
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Adam focused on enhancing the Flagr microservice by implementing features related to flag management, specifically the ability to restore deleted flags. This involved modifying the backend code to handle the restoration process and updating the UI to display and interact with deleted flags. The user also added tests to validate the new functionality and optimized the codebase based on suggestions. The contributions demonstrate expertise in the service's core logic, API interactions, and the UI for a better user experience.
golanga-b-testingflaggingtestingab-testing
gadventures/TIPs
Oct 2015 - Jun 2020
Technology Improvement Proposals
Contributions:5 PRs, 9 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 9 months
ethereumproposalsblockchainsolidityimprovement
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