Andrew Horth
Software Developer (Contract) at Department for Education
South Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAndrew Horth is a pragmatic senior software developer with 25 years in IT and a strong recent focus on modern .NET Core, cloud-native microservices and API-led migrations for large public and private sector organisations. He has repeatedly led end-to-end projects—from requirements and UX through architecture, databases and deployment to Kubernetes—delivering resilient, cost-optimised systems (notably reducing Azure CosmosDB costs and upgrading EKS environments). Comfortable mentoring across teams, he combines hands-on engineering with practical frameworks and GDS-aligned UIs for high‑impact services such as the DfE Teaching Regulation Agency migration and AMPP core infrastructure. Fast to learn new technologies, he balances pragmatic deadlines with maintainable, well‑documented solutions and a proven record of enabling faster onboarding and cross-team reuse.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Com, Bachelor of Science - BS, Com at Newcastle University
Github Skills (13)
eventflow9
api8
rest-api8
diagnostics8
rest8
restful-api7
database7
restful7
crm6
microsoft4
ats1
internet-computer1
tms1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hortha/diagnostics-eventflow-splunk
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
DFE-Digital/twd-workforce-data-api
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:10 reviews, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 20 days
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