Tom Adams
Chief Technology Officer at Adyen
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTom Adams is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO at Adyen with 17 years of experience building and scaling engineering organizations and payment systems. Previously he led engineering for Cash App/Block—supporting about 1,500 engineers and platforms serving tens of millions of users across payments, banking, investing, crypto and fraud prevention. He combines deep hands-on engineering roots (from building high-throughput mobile platforms and ML training/evaluation infrastructure) with proven leadership in growing teams, hiring frameworks and engineering career models. Tom has a track record of turning monoliths into API- and event-driven platforms, launching mobile-first products at scale, and coaching senior engineers into leaders. Based in San Francisco, he pairs product-focused technical strategy with operational rigor across global, distributed teams.
17 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology (Hons I) Computer Science, Bachelor of Information Technology (Hons I) Computer Science at Griffith University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (85)
http10
combinator10
rest10
data-access10
json10
finagle10
finch10
scala10
monads10
sequencing10
synchronous10
circe10
guice9
concurrency9
scalajs9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sophiebits/functionalkit
Mar 2009 - Dec 2011
Contributions:79 commits in 2 years 9 months
objective-cswiftios
redbubble/finch-sangria
Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:45 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
finchsangria
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