Simon Adcock
Engineering Manager at The Guardian
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Adcock is an experienced engineering manager based in London with 11 years building high‑traffic web applications, currently leading teams at The Guardian. He combines hands‑on JavaScript front‑end expertise—evidenced by contributions to the Guardian’s flagship frontend repo, including Sentry upgrades and webpack integration—with people leadership across senior and staff engineering roles. Simon’s background spans extracting and modernising checkout domains into microservices and building reusable front‑end component bundlers, giving him a practical eye for scalable architecture and cross-team reuse. He’s comfortable moving between coding and management, mentoring engineers while driving improvements in error reporting and asset delivery for a major news platform. An occasional conference speaker and internal coach earlier in his career, he brings both technical depth and a commitment to developer uplift.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of SouthamptonHigh School, High School at South Bromsgrove High School
English
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
webpack10
front-end-development10
webpacker10
jquery-select29
ajax9
jquery9
error-handling9
html9
react8
internet-explorer6
excel6
substring6
css6
internationalization6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:90 reviews, 2033 commits, 1010 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on enhancing the front-end of the Guardian's frontend repository, with a series of commits that upgraded the Sentry library to version 3.8.0. They were also responsible for incorporating a webpack bundle into the standard application flow, and moving a number of utilities into the common js package. These updates were aimed at improving both error reporting and front-end asset delivery.
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guardian/fonts
May 2020 - Sep 2020
Fonts for the Guardian’s digital platforms.
Contributions:3 reviews, 13 commits, 4 PRs in 4 months
google-fontsplatformsfontsguardianproduction
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