Adam Straughan
Principal Consultant at Equal Experts
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAdam Straughan is a Principal Consultant with 11 years of professional experience designing and delivering cloud-native systems, currently based in the Greater Cambridge area. He blends pragmatic engineering with strong operational thinking—advocating simple, testable solutions, early incremental releases, and clear monitoring to keep operations first-class stakeholders. His career spans hands-on technical leadership and architecture across retail, fintech and consultancy at organisations such as Equal Experts, Tesco, John Lewis and BCG, with frequent work on .NET Core, Azure and AWS migrations. Adam is comfortable shifting between coding, leading teams and shaping cross-team integration, having repeatedly rebuilt core services and guided discover-to-delivery efforts. He values observing system behaviour over chasing implementation detail, which has driven proportional cost-of-change outcomes for clients. Outside of role titles, he combines deep practical delivery experience with a disciplined philosophy that prioritises maintainability and enjoyable engineering.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Hons, Mechanical Engineering, Hons, Mechanical Engineering at University of Nottingham
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Github Skills (59)
gnu10
editor9
login-system9
microsoft9
electron9
visual-studio-code9
vscode-extension9
typescript9
visual-studio9
flags9
vscode9
golang7
posix7
jq7
cli6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NearlyUnique/awsSts
Dec 2016 - Nov 2019
Create temporary login session for AWS CLI
Contributions:7 releases, 35 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 11 months
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NearlyUnique/httpDump
Jul 2016 - Sep 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
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