David Adams
CTO & Co-Founder at Propeller
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Adams is a hands-on CTO and co-founder with 11 years building full-stack web and mobile products from Cardiff, Wales. He leads Whickr, the UK’s top marketplace for buying and selling horses, applying modern tech to simplify a niche, high-touch marketplace. As co-owner of Propeller since 2014 and a former freelance developer, he balances product strategy, project delivery, and day-to-day engineering. His background in multimedia studies informs a strong user-focused approach to UX and front-end design alongside backend systems. David’s career shows a pattern of founding and scaling specialized platforms rather than chasing broad consumer markets, demonstrating entrepreneurial resilience. He brings pragmatic technical leadership that turns domain knowledge into polished, market-leading applications.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Multimedia Studies, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Multimedia Studies at Coleg Glan Hafren
Github Skills (31)
ios10
react-native10
mobile-development10
app-framework10
cross-platform10
react-native-webview10
android10
mobile10
react10
parallax9
node-apn9
apn9
node-gcm9
intro9
textinput9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wearepropeller/react-native-document-picker
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
Document Picker for React Native using Document Providers
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 months
reactreact-nativeprovidersandroidios
wearepropeller/react-native-textinput-utils
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:5 pushes in 2 months
react-nativereacttextinputnative-extension
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