Summary
Adam Whittingham is a pragmatic VP of Engineering with 13 years of experience building full-stack web platforms and leading engineering teams, currently scaling product and systems at Cronofy. He brings deep Ruby on Rails, Java, and DevOps expertise from hands-on roles ranging from founder of a Rails consultancy to senior engineering positions at BT, with a track record stabilising high-volume reporting systems and automating deployment and monitoring. Adam combines rigorous test-driven practices with a love of prototyping new services and interactive front-end work, making him equally comfortable shipping APIs or single-page diagrams. He holds an MSc in Computer Security and uniquely blends security-minded thinking with day-to-day engineering leadership, often stepping into the codebase to unblock teams and reduce operational risk.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Security, MSc Computer Security at University of Birmingham