Brendan Smith
Senior Software Engineer at Government Digital Service
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Smith is a senior software engineer and architect based in Brighton with over a decade of experience building backend systems and leading teams across public sector and games studios. He combines advanced Python skills with production experience in Node.js, Erlang and PHP, and a strong DevOps toolkit (AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Docker) to design scalable, observable services. Brendan has repeatedly owned technical architecture, delivery processes and team structures—shaping systems from REST/Django backends to infrastructure-as-code pipelines. A Certified Scrum Master, he brings both hands-on implementation and people-focused leadership, having moved between fast-paced consumer platforms and government digital services. Notably, his background includes practical low-level ops work (firewalls, load balancing, monitoring) as well as mentoring non-technical stakeholders, which helps him translate policy and product needs into robust technical solutions.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Southampton
Github Skills (50)
api10
django-rest-framework10
backend10
rendering9
python9
django9
nodejs9
frontend9
pip8
react8
packaging8
python-development8
yolk7
common-library7
virtualenv7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gamernetwork/gastatsdash
Jun 2015 - Oct 2018
Simple Google Analytics stats summary for multiple sites
Contributions:5 PRs, 42 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 4 months
sitesanalyticsgoogle-analyticsstats
gamernetwork/simple-301-redirects
Dec 2017 - Oct 2018
Simple 301 Redirects is a popular URL redirection plugin for WordPress.
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 9 months
wordpressredirectionurl-redirectionredirectswordpress-plugin
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