Adrian Hesketh
Cloud Practice Lead - Next Gen Engineering at Accenture
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAdrian Hesketh is a cloud-focused engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling platform and delivery capabilities across consulting and enterprise environments. Currently Cloud Practice Lead for Next Gen Engineering at Accenture after leading cloud practice and strategic alliances at Infinity Works, he combines hands-on architecture and backend development experience with commercial and partnership leadership. He has a strong track record advancing teams from principal consulting through tech director and head of development roles, shaping cloud strategy, delivery models, and engineering culture. A practical coder as well as a leader, he’s contributed to open-source tooling such as a Go library that generates structs from JSON schema, improving support for nested types and minimizing merge conflicts through deterministic output ordering. Based in Leeds, he brings a creative technical background (BSc in Music Technology) to pragmatic problem solving and cross-functional collaboration.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
A Levels, Music Technology, Biology, Chemistry, A Levels, Music Technology, Biology, Chemistry at Carmel CollegeAgile By Example 2015BSc (Hons), Music Technology, 2:1, BSc (Hons), Music Technology, 2:1 at Leeds Metropolitan University
mandarin chinese - 4 years part time study
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
json-schema10
go10
data-structure9
entity-framework9
asp-net9
data-structures9
testing8
api-design8
computer-engineering7
csv6
mongodb6
amazon-dynamodb6
wcf6
dictionary6
amazon-web-services6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
a-h/generate
Jul 2016 - Feb 2019
Generates Go (golang) Structs from JSON schema.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 44 commits, 34 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Adrian contributed to the development of a Go-based library that generates Go structs from JSON schema definitions. Their work included adding support for nested complex types, arrays, and ensuring that empty fields are omitted from JSON serialization. They also focused on optimizing code readability by ordering structs and fields in the output to minimize merge conflicts. The user was instrumental in expanding the library's capabilities to handle more complex JSON schema structures.
golangstructscode-generatorcodegeneratorjson-schema
a-h/lexical
Oct 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 53 commits, 42 pushes in 4 years 8 months
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