Adam Chesney

Agentic AI consultancy designing and delivering production agentic systems, currently across three concurrent client engagements in the UK and EU.

• Continuing to lead development of Eve Horizon, Incept5's agentic engineering toolkit, as an independent supplier
• Built the agentic system that runs HLS's own back office: bookkeeping, invoicing, document processing and tax planning, all agent-operated
• Agentic-native architecture and AI-augmented delivery for fixed-scope client builds

Created Eve Horizon, Incept5's internal agentic toolkit, radically accelerating engineering across the organisation and its clients. The engagement continues through Higher Level Software.

Velo Payments is an "all remote, no offices" start-up re-imagining business payments for the gig economy. Worked remotely with a great team to engineer a data-driven, cloud-agnostic payments platform with bank-grade security.

• Increased platform throughput by 10x
• Completely re-designed security architecture for multi-deployment scenarios, including inside bank networks
• Architected new high-performance modulithic architecture

Led architecture and engineering to build Google Cloud infrastructure supporting a highly ambitious mobile app. Spring Boot API, large social graph, innovative audio processing components and TensorFlow models in Google ML Engine.

Consultancy specialising in emerging cloud technologies. Built proof of concepts and MVPs focusing on testing hypotheses and rapid iteration. Helped organisations in leisure travel build products using Google's Flexible App Engine with Spring Boot microservices.

Joined to help grow the engineering team and company. Worked with Google App Engine and serious Android/iOS development.

Part of the Oracle Business Intelligence Infrastructure Team in Bristol, working on BI Platform, Fusion Applications and Oracle Public Cloud. Generally operating as tech lead within Scrum teams.

Side project building an Android client and Spring/CouchDB/ElasticSearch backend for visual work tracking on super yachts and schools.

Designed a modular and highly scalable flight booking engine using Test Driven Design, Spring 3, Spring Web Services and Maven.

Designed a JEE-based, highly scalable payment settlement system for AWS (EC2, SQS, S3) capable of handling 300M+ transactions/year.

Led the development team building an industry-leading XML web service on open source Java. Responsibilities included systems architecture, software engineering, cross-department coordination and team management.

• Migrated platform from Visual C++ to open source Java
• Designed and implemented the first leisure GDS web service in the UK
• Created Java/XML data binding and IoC frameworks before they were mainstream
• Built a high-performance XML-aware load balancer with sticky sessions
• Implemented automated regression testing using real-world sessions