Adrian Hawkins-longley is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 15 years of experience building high-quality, production-grade systems and leading distributed, cross-functional teams from early-stage startups to enterprise clients. He co-founded and scaled Featurist into a 20-engineer consultancy delivering mission-critical platforms (including a booking API now powering >£1.5bn in bookings) and now builds AI-first products as Co-Founder of Talk To HR while also founding Chainwright and advising Nurole on AI-enabled board search. Equally comfortable as a hands-on tech lead or people coach, he champions agile practices, CI/CD and TDD to improve delivery and reduce operational costs—once cutting quote latency dramatically to save £1m/year. Based in London, Adrian blends product empathy (working with a 20-year HR director co-founder) with deep systems experience across payments, streaming and e-commerce, and a track record of translating complex domain needs into reliable software.
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