Alex Whitehead-Smith
Lead Developer at Government Digital Service
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Whitehead-Smith is a Lead Developer with a decade of experience building country-scale systems and leading agile teams at the UK Government Digital Service. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering—particularly TypeScript/Node.js and AWS serverless architectures—with cross-team coordination, stakeholder management, and client-facing delivery under tight deadlines. He led GOV.UK One Login work, shaping identity infrastructure used by millions monthly, and has applied languages like Rust, Python and Java for specialised tasks. Earlier roles in data science and digital analytics give him a strong grounding in data-driven decision making and automation. Collected experience across accessibility tooling, zero-downtime migrations and identity migration projects shows he enjoys solving complex, operationally critical problems while communicating solutions to non-technical audiences.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Chemistry, Chemistry at University of OxfordAylesbury Grammar School
English
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Github Skills (116)
slack-bot10
api-client10
python-client10
puppet10
hotel-booking10
api10
container10
marketplace10
boostrap10
gdelt10
supplier10
login-system9
harmony9
yaml9
python9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
govuk-one-login/di-account-data-backend
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
A respository to contain and deploy backend infrastructure to the di-account-data pod
Contributions:6 reviews, 11 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 7 months
alex9smith/gdelt-doc-api
May 2020 - May 2022
A Python client for the GDELT 2.0 Doc API
Contributions:12 releases, 36 commits, 50 PRs in 2 years
api-clientapipythonapi-docpython-client
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