Thomas Adam
Head Of Software Engineering And Infrastructure at Qualsafe
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Adam is a pragmatic software engineering leader with 16 years of experience who currently heads Software Engineering and Infrastructure at Qualsafe, blending hands-on low-level systems work with team and delivery leadership. He has a strong track record at Smoothwall driving cloud migrations, defining engineering roadmaps, and scaling teams and processes—from hiring and OKRs to Agile coaching and cost-managed cloud deployments. Technically versatile, he has shipped platform-level changes (including 64-bit and Debian migrations) and contributed low-level, platform-specific fixes to the widely used tmux project, showing comfort with system internals as well as delivery discipline. Known for mentoring and embedding sustainable engineering practices, he pairs deep technical edits with strategic oversight to keep projects on schedule and teams growing.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Purbeck SchoolBachelor of Science, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering at Solent University
Github Skills (10)
c1710
system-programming10
c1110
openbsd10
low-level-programming9
bsd9
git8
version-control8
posix7
posixct7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
tmux/tmux
Jun 2015 - Jul 2026
tmux source code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 12 PRs, 1696 pushes in 11 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Thomas was involved in merging OpenBSD-specific code into the main branch of the tmux project, with a focus on low-level system code. Their commits primarily involved modifications to the `queue.h` file, which included adapting and integrating code from OpenBSD's version of the queueing library. These changes indicate a focus on platform-specific compatibility and low-level system integration for the tmux project.
tmux
ThomasAdam/bar
Jul 2015 - Dec 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 9 years 5 months
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