Adam Taylor
Tech Lead at Adzuna
Greater Sheffield Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAdam Taylor is a Tech Lead with 16 years of hands-on experience building scalable web products and growing high-performing backend teams, currently leading development at job-search startup Adzuna. He combines pragmatic engineering—Perl and modern backend services, CI-as-code, AWS tooling—and product-minded leadership to ship features like ValueMyCV and international rollouts. Adam has repeatedly improved engineering processes from recruitment and onboarding to automated deployments and remote-first collaboration, while mentoring junior developers and managing grads. His background building a service-oriented architecture at Net-A-Porter underpins a strong focus on testability, observability, and long-lived maintainable systems. Notably, he blends deep legacy-stack expertise with modern DevOps practices, making him effective at evolving systems without disrupting delivery.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Software Engineering, Upper Second Class Honours, BSc, Software Engineering, Upper Second Class Honours at Durham University
English
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Github Skills (48)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
adamtaylor/Norris
Oct 2009 - Apr 2010
Contributions:74 commits in 5 months
adamtaylor/Dancer-Plugin-Mongo
Oct 2010 - Feb 2015
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 4 months
dancermicro-frameworkmongodb
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