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A<\/span>s the Open Source<\/span> lead at online retail giant Zalando, Codemotion Berlin speaker Paul Adams leads a team<\/span> responsible for developing and stewarding company policy and strategy. Although he lives and works in Berlin<\/span>, we caught up with him as he returned to his birthplace of Scotland.<\/p>\n

It was as a teenager living here in the Scottish countryside that Paul started coding for the very first time \u2013 mainly out of frustration with the exceptionally slow dial-up internet that plagued rural Britain during the nineties.<\/p>\n

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Programming<\/span> done well is a team sport. I played rugby at school and, for me, programming<\/span> was no different from playing rugby \u2013 if you wanted to do well you had to work well with the team<\/span><\/q><\/p>\n

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\u201cI noticed there was a handful of websites that I was visiting which were particularly slow, even more than usual, and I found by digging through the source code<\/span> of these websites that they were often being hosted by a particular technology. When I dug around some more, I discovered that these websites, or the technology that was hosting these websites, was something you could play with \u2013 you could see the code and you could edit that code and you could help make things better. So my first introduction to programming<\/span> and to Open Source<\/span> as a concept all happened at roughly the same time,\u201d says Paul.<\/p>\n

After studying as an undergraduate in pure software engineering, Paul went on to do a PhD in software engineering, specifically on the topic of productivity inside Open Source<\/span> projects. Which all sounds very clever and technical. But Paul says he was motivated mainly by curiosity \u2013 and the desire to break things.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d always had an interest in learning how things work. Computer software was just a particular example of this. I was just as excited to know how cars work or how a radio<\/span> works. Software<\/span> was just another thing that I wanted to understand. Essentially I wanted to break things apart, find out how they worked, then put them back together again,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Programmers<\/span> don\u2019t tend to have a reputation as gregarious team players amongst non-techies. But for Paul, the social aspect of programming<\/span> was what drove him \u2013 and what made him successful.<\/p>\n

His interests now lie off the rugby field, in art, photography and jazz. But Paul remains steadfast in his belief<\/span> in the importance of teamwork and social skills. He does, however, have a confession for us.<\/p>\n

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Any programmer<\/span> that\u2019s ever worked with me will testify that I am terrible! I\u2019m the world\u2019s worst programmer<\/span>. In terms of software engineering, that\u2019s not what I bring to the table. I can write not terrible code, but no one should pay me to write code!<\/q><\/p>\n

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\u201cHistorically I worked on a project<\/span> called KDE for over 10 years but never wrote a single line of code for them. My role there was more community guidance and shepherding. My day job doesn\u2019t really involve programming<\/span>. I lead programmers<\/span> but I don\u2019t get the opportunity to do it myself. I always say programmers<\/span> don\u2019t get paid to programme, programmers<\/span> get paid to think. The sitting down at a keyboard and tapping away is just a consequence of the thinking, that\u2019s not actually what you get paid to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul says that the biggest challenge in his career was accepting that his soft skills were his greatest strength and a valuable asset.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing through this mental leap that what you bring to the table is your soft skills can be a struggle. For me, embracing the fact that the technology side for me was that I could do it but I wasn\u2019t great at it was one of the best lessons I learned.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although considered an expert<\/span> in his field, Paul\u2019s ambition is a simple one: to be happy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always had a singular focus on doing things that I enjoyed. I just always had a strong feeling that if I wasn\u2019t enjoying something I\u2019m probably not going to be any good, whatever the output is. I always ask myself am I doing the best thing I could be doing right now? Am I enjoying what I\u2019m doing? I moved around a little bit<\/span> to optimise happiness and therefore output. Over the years this has worked well for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joining Zalando, a company<\/span> with a huge workforce<\/span> and rapid growth, was an exciting prospect, particularly living in Berlin<\/span>, the city of start-ups.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a startup on every street corner. That\u2019s a super-interesting environment to be working in; there\u2019s a lot of opportunity and a lot of interesting problems being solved. In amongst all of these small businesses and all the chaos that they bring to the table \u2013 which is a good thing by the way \u2013 out comes this company<\/span> that began life 10 years ago selling flip-flops. That\u2019s how Zalando started \u2013 literally only selling flip-flops online to the Berlin<\/span> market. Ten years later it\u2019s got 16,000 employees. By Berlin standards it\u2019s huge and therefore it\u2019s got gravity,\u201d says Paul.<\/p>\n

It was the size of the company<\/span> that was the biggest challenge. As the company<\/span> grew, one team became several teams<\/span> and eventually a community<\/span>, with a need for a different approach.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you grow and you become more of a community<\/span> than a team<\/span>, you need to start acting differently if you want to build a great product. The things you did when you were four engineers do not apply when you\u2019re eight engineers and certainly do not apply when you\u2019re 3,000 engineers. Most of what I\u2019ll be talking about at the Berlin<\/span> conference is how we learn and apply best practice<\/span> from Open Source<\/span>. When you have 3,000 engineers in a large company<\/span>, how do you steward them to make a great product? How do big organisations like Zalando make Zalando happen?\u201d says Paul.<\/p>\n

His advice for the next generation of developers?<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t be afraid to be you and do what\u2019s right for you. I wouldn\u2019t be doing my job<\/span> if I didn\u2019t love it. Don\u2019t be afraid to follow what actually interests you strongly. Don\u2019t be afraid or ashamed of being a learner and you\u2019ll have a great career ahead of you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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