Bevan Loon
Engineering Lead at 9fin
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBevan Loon is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building empowered teams that deliver user-focused software across public and private sectors. He has progressed from hands-on developer roles at the Government Digital Service—contributing to high-profile projects like GOV.UK’s Whitehall publishing system—to senior engineering management positions at GoCardless, Funding Circle UK and Beamery. Comfortable balancing technical depth and people leadership, he specialises in migrating and refactoring complex back-end systems while shaping delivery practices. Based in Stony Stratford, he brings a rare blend of public-sector product experience and fintech delivery discipline, with a strong track record of turning messy legacy data and content migration challenges into reliable, production-ready solutions.
15 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BCom Hons, Information Technology, Economics, BCom Hons, Information Technology, Economics at University of the Witwatersrand
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Github Skills (11)
data-migration10
ruby-rails10
dhall10
rails10
wsh10
api10
wp-api10
hal10
ruby10
apidoc9
postgresql9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Sep 2016 - Dec 2019
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:244 commits, 162 PRs, 397 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Bevan primarily focused on migrating and refactoring code related to data migrations within the Whitehall publishing system. Their contributions involved updating existing data migration scripts to handle changes in content URLs, refactoring file creation, and ensuring the correct data was being migrated. They were also involved in updating models and associated files for the Publishing API.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
bevanloon/swiss-cheese
Mar 2017 - Sep 2020
A wholly insecure application
Contributions:3 PRs, 14 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 6 months
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