Adam Slack
Head Of Capability - Engineering at Nimble Approach
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAdam Slack is a Head of Capability - Engineering with nine years of hands-on experience building cloud-native platforms and full-stack applications, currently leading engineering capability at Nimble Approach from Sheffield. He blends tech leadership and client-facing roles—tech lead, tribe/account lead, and platform engineering co-chair—while still shipping code across AWS and GCP using TypeScript, Node, Python, CDK/Terraform and modern CI. His background spans media infrastructure at DAZN, consultancy delivery at Infinity Works, and research-grade systems at Oxford, giving him a strong mix of product, platform and research-informed engineering. Known for mentoring and upskilling teams, he routinely shapes testing, monitoring and delivery practices as well as bid and sales engagement. A pragmatic problem-solver, he pairs architectural thinking with practical implementation and an appetite for interesting, complex problems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Nottingham Trent University
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Github Skills (54)
chrome-web-store10
appdata10
google-play10
controller9
scrape9
scraper9
api9
mobile-application9
traffic9
crawler9
apk8
aws8
terraform8
nodejs8
crossword8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
OxfordHCC/XRay-Sherlock
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Accommodates Ad-Hoc analysis that is to be performed over the set or subset of Android app APKs.
Contributions:36 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 5 days
android-app
AdamSlack/colours.hapax.xyz
Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
POC that Creates an image consisting of horizontal slices of the average colour of frames in a video
Contributions:45 commits, 11 PRs, 53 pushes in 7 months
artgenerative-artfilmvideopoc
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