George Adamson
Principal Software Engineer at Graphcore
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Adamson is a Principal Software Engineer and hands-on web architect with 12+ years of experience building accessible, high-performance front-end systems and design systems across startups and enterprise clients. He has led and grown teams from startup to scale-up, driving strategy for accessibility, carbon reduction, performance and internationalisation while delivering React/Next.js and JAMstack solutions. Known for mentoring, hiring and culture-building, he pairs people-first leadership with deep technical craft—TS/CSS, semantic markup and component encapsulation. His career spans roles at Graphcore, Yoto and Publicis Sapient, plus long consulting experience including BAE, Vodafone and Dyson, giving him a rare blend of product, agency and platform perspectives. He’s an enthusiastic conference speaker with a playful streak and an unusual commitment to decarbonising the web as part of performance and usability work.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Hons Electronic Engineering, BEng Hons Electronic Engineering at Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
French, English
Github Skills (27)
json-data8
lazyload7
scroll7
postcss6
netlify6
jasmine5
lazy-loading5
testing5
javascript5
unit-testing4
bdd4
tdd4
nextjs4
svg-sprite3
web-components3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
georgeadamson/postcss-nth-nested
May 2023 - Jun 2026
PostCSS plugin for :nth-scion(n) nested descendent depth selector
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 3 years 1 month
georgeadamson/facade-script
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Web Component for Import-on-interaction pattern or for lazy-loading scripts
Contributions:43 commits, 1 PR, 40 pushes in 14 days
lazy-loadingweb-componentslazyloadscroll
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