Martin Adams
Chief Innovation Officer
South Hams, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Adams is a seasoned technology and innovation leader with over two decades of entrepreneurial and engineering experience, currently serving as Chief Innovation Officer at MattressOnline and CEO of MEDA Technologies. He co-founded and scaled MattressOnline from 2003, leading full-stack architecture, bespoke e-commerce systems, and customer-experience innovations that drove rapid growth in recent years. Adept at bridging disciplines, he combines UX design, web architecture, and hands-on development to turn "what if" ideas into practical products and platforms. His background spans roles from GUI architect at Ericsson to automated testing at IBM, reflecting a deep foundation in both front-end UX and robust engineering practices. Passionate about personal knowledge management and lifelong learning, he looks for opportunities in the invisible gaps between disciplines to create differentiated consumer experiences. Based in South Hams, England, he brings a founder’s grit and a pragmatic focus on shaping the next phase of retail innovation.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Internet Technologies, First, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Internet Technologies, First at The University of Northampton
English, javascript, php, c#, java
Github Skills (48)
browser9
react9
nextjs8
php-class8
headers7
heroicons7
icon-pack7
javascript7
range-slider7
typescript7
svg7
slider-component7
compiler7
php6
child-process6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
medatech/medatech.github.io
Sep 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
medatech/entity-core
Feb 2020 - Apr 2022
A backend framework to do the heavy lifting for frontend developers
Contributions:6 reviews, 11 PRs, 65 pushes in 2 years 1 month
backend-frameworkliftingto-doframeworkbackend
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