Ryan Adams
Head Of Learning at Instil
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRyan Adams is a seasoned digital product and engineering leader with 12 years’ experience building and scaling learning platforms, web applications and mobile apps across organisations including Instil, Proversity, Learning Pool and the BBC. He blends hands-on development (PHP, NodeJS, iOS, Android, responsive web) with product and technical architecture, translating customer and instructional design needs into practical roadmaps and software specifications. Ryan has led distributed teams in Belfast, Cape Town and Bogotá, managing delivery, code quality and career development for developers while driving mobile-first transformations. An award-winning Android developer with an astrophysics undergraduate and an MSc in IT, he brings a rare mix of analytical rigor and user-centred product judgement. Notably, he pairs deep technical contributions with training and mentoring, helping instructional designers and learners get the most from complex platforms.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusBSc, Astrophysics, BSc, Astrophysics at University of Edinburgh
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Github Skills (31)
xapi10
javascript10
elearning10
scorm10
nodejs10
mongodb10
accessibility9
user-interface9
responsive9
react9
java7
css7
edx6
nsdata6
ios6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ryangadams/cleaner
Mar 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
ryangadams/beedeebeedee
May 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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