Adam Rice
Vice President at Ruby Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Rice is a seasoned technology leader and engineering executive based in Melbourne with 14 years of software experience and a strong background in web development and product-focused engineering. Currently Head of Engineering at Bio Concepts and Vice President of Ruby Australia, he blends hands-on full‑stack experience with community leadership—co-hosting Ruby Melbourne and driving diversity and education initiatives. He has a track record of building and leading engineering teams across education, healthcare, and SaaS, and runs several small businesses focused on education and consulting. An active contributor to open-source projects, he implemented internationalisation and UI improvements for the mental health app ifme, reflecting a user-centered approach to engineering. Known for translating educator and client needs into dependable technical solutions, he brings practical product management training and long-term partnership thinking to technical strategy.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Short course, Product Management, Short course, Product Management at General AssemblyCertificate in Office Bookkeeping, Certificate in Office Bookkeeping at North Melbourne Institute of TAFEMultimedia, CAD and web development, Multimedia, CAD and web development at QANTM
Github Skills (16)
i18n-js10
ember-i18n10
rails-i18n10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
javascript9
rspec9
rails8
html8
react8
sc7
scs7
ruby-rails6
jestjs6
webpack5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ifmeorg/ifme
Feb 2017 - Sep 2017
Free, open source mental health communication web app to share experiences with loved ones
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:103 commits, 20 PRs, 12 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily worked on implementing features related to i18n (internationalization) and user interface enhancements within the `ifme` web application. Their contributions involved modifying the application to support multiple languages using a locale dropdown and ensuring language persistence across different pages. The commits also included changes to controller and spec files, indicating involvement in both frontend and backend aspects of the application. These changes included refactoring and improvements in multiple files to reflect the multi-language support.
mental-healthjestcapybarareact-testing-librarycommunity-driven
MorningCoffeeDev/eml_ruby
Sep 2019 - Aug 2022
API client for integrating the EML payment REST Web Services and Transaction Notification Services
Contributions:24 commits, 4 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 11 months
notification-servicerestwebservice
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