Alex Hayton
Staff Engineer at Adobe
Bath, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Hayton is a senior software engineer and manager with 15+ years building full‑stack systems and growing autonomous product teams across startups and scaleups. He blends hands‑on coding (Node.js, React, React Native, C++, C#, and recently Rust) with people leadership, preferring to upskill teams while still getting “stuck in” to diagnose hard problems. Alex has led high‑scale real-time video and audio systems—owning WebRTC forks, ffmpeg pipelines and custom audio stacks—for products serving millions of viewers, and has strong experience with Kubernetes, Google Cloud, Firestore, Redis and Temporal. He has a track record of turning monoliths into maintainable microservices, shipping mobile apps, and architecting infrastructure that supports cross‑functional teams. Based in Bath, UK, he pairs product‑level thinking with practical engineering, and outside work he’s a slow‑travel circumnavigator and founder of an indie games studio, reflecting a curiosity-driven approach to problem solving.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Computer Science, MEng Computer Science at University of Southampton
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (174)
umd10
javascript10
typescript10
android10
launchdarkly10
ios10
react-native10
expo10
frontend10
react10
node-library9
ns29
webcam9
angular9
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
AlexHayton/nonsense-permissible
Apr 2024 - Jun 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 1 month
AlexHayton/NS2-Combat-Mode-Old
Dec 2010 - Jul 2011
Contributions:102 commits in 7 months
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