Adam Spiers
CTO And Co-founder at Panther Protocol
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAdam Spiers is a seasoned CTO and co-founder with 20+ years building high-availability, cloud and blockchain systems from architectural design to hands-on implementation. He blends engineering leadership and product-facing roles, having led teams at Toucan Protocol and SUSE while consulting on blockchain, zk and custody solutions for global institutions. A long-time FLOSS maintainer and GNU contributor, Adam regularly improves both front-end and back-end open-source projects—from reveal.js UI features to osc test automation—demonstrating breadth across Python, C, Rust-adjacent tooling and Emacs Lisp ecosystems. He prioritises clear communication and developer productivity, creating automation and tooling that accelerate delivery without compromising quality. Notably, he co-founded an award-winning carbon-on-chain project at EthLondon and remains active in research-driven integrations between cryptography, real-time systems and cloud-native infrastructure. Based in London with a BA in Mathematics and Computation from Oxford, he combines deep systems expertise with a musician’s discipline (RAM performance diploma) and a coder’s curiosity that began at age seven.
20 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA Mathematics and Computation, BA Mathematics and Computation at University of OxfordDip. Perf. RAM Advanced Performance, Dip. Perf. RAM Advanced Performance at Royal Academy of MusicShrewsbury School
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Github Skills (45)
test-automation10
dependency-management10
git10
javascript10
c-language10
github10
package-management10
python10
slide10
testing10
command-line-interface10
http10
software-quality10
slideshow10
emacs-lisp10
Programming languages (35)
Github contributions (5)
openSUSE/osc
Feb 2012 - Oct 2016
The Command Line Interface to work with an Open Build Service
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the Open Build Service CLI (`osc`) by fixing typos, adding documentation, and enhancing the testing infrastructure. They improved test coverage by adding a new subcommand, `prdiff`, and refactored existing test code for better reusability. The user also addressed a service exit code issue and improved the handling of diff outputs in tests to avoid false negatives. Finally, the user added the ability to pass the API URL to source services.
command-line-interface
dimitri/el-get
Apr 2013 - May 2016
Manage the external elisp bits and pieces upon which you depend!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 14 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributes to the `el-get` project by updating and adding recipes (configurations) for managing Emacs packages. Their contributions involve modifying existing recipes to point to new repositories or correct dependencies, and adding new recipes for packages like beeminder. They also debugged the HTTP retrieval callback function and corrected a typo in the codebase. Their work primarily centers around Emacs Lisp, the core language for extending Emacs, and managing package dependencies.
elisp
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