Adelaide Baron — Backend & Automation Engineer

67%

Faster defect resolution from leading shift‑left testing adoption

500k+

Requests/day on the payments service migrated to Kafka Outbox

83%

Cut from manual setup time via Bash‑automated Linux deployments

2,800+

Women taught Java, AI/ML & software engineering with Code First Girls

Java Python C++ Bash AWS Kubernetes MySQL Postgres Kafka Squish K6 Git

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Things I've built and led

A working log of the systems, tools and teams I've shipped — from sonar software to test pipelines to a rowing club's Sunday-morning sanity.

Thales · Full‑time Jan 2025 – Present

Sonar signal software & testing strategy

Java engineer processing hydrophone sonar signals for display on an operator GUI.
Leading the Software Testing & Automation Guild across UK & France sites.
Designed GUI quality gates in Squish, automating tests across legacy and modern apps.

Java Squish Bash Scrum

◆ Secured internal R&D funding for a year‑long automated testing programme
◆ 67% reduction in defect resolution time
◆ 83% less manual deployment setup time

Visa · Currencycloud Oct 2022 – Jan 2025

API & pipeline reliability at payment scale

Parallel test automation cut build times 73% with 100% CI/CD stability via pod init tasks.
Built API services in AWS/Kubernetes; led a Kafka Outbox migration for a 500k+ req/day service.
Integrated K6 performance testing into the pipeline and mentored a new payments team.

AWS Kubernetes Kafka K6

Code First Girls Apr 2022 – Present

Lead Instructor & Technical Content Creator

Delivered 16-week Software & Data Engineering and Data Science bootcamps, teaching beginners through to junior-level engineers.
Delivered 4-week professional courses on Applying AI in the Workplace, Machine Learning, and Java.
Designed and created the technical content for the 5-week specialisation module and the standalone Java course.
Redesigned the software engineering CFG degree curriculum — taught 2,800+ women across all programmes.

Teaching Content Creation Java AI/ML

Mersey Rowing Club Delivered 2026

Members Hub — scheduling microservices

Built automated scheduling for Mersey Rowing Club, saving 29 volunteer hours per week.
Personal project — the kind of automation that started as "someone should really fix this."

Microservices Automation

Sparta Global · Consultant May 2022 – Sep 2022

Junior Java SDET, government client

8‑week intensive training, then placed as a frontend manual & automation test engineer.

Java Test Automation

Code First Girls Oct 2024 – Dec 2024

Fitness Tracker Upgrade

Upgraded a full-stack fitness tracking application as part of a 4-person agile team, in a mid-level engineer upskilling bootcamp.
Integrated GraphQL to reduce endpoint sprawl from the existing REST API.
Introduced UI system tests with Cucumber & Selenium, replacing manual testing and enabling regression testing.
Automated deployment using Terraform.

GraphQL Cucumber Selenium Terraform

Training log

Courses & education

The formal record — degree, certifications, and structured training.

2022

BSc Mathematics (Hons)

University of Lincoln — First Class

First Class

2022

ISTQB Certified Tester, Foundation Level (CTFL)

International Software Testing Qualifications Board

Certified

2022 – 2025

Mid‑Level Bootcamp & Data CFG Degree

Code First Girls

Distinction

Strong return

Recognition

TechWomen100 Award, 2025 British Rowing Young Volunteer of the Year, 2025 Women in Tech D&I Power List Winner, 2024 & 2025 Code First Girls Ambassador

Open channel

Get in touch

Best signal‑to‑noise ratio via email or LinkedIn. Always happy to talk testing, automation, sonar systems, or Code First Girls.

Email

baronadelaide@hotmail.com

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