Colm Britton
Service Designer at Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolColm Britton is a service designer with 15 years’ experience shaping how data, infrastructure and policy intersect to make complex digital services legible, usable and trustworthy. He specialises in de-risking large-scale public sector delivery by translating ambiguous problems into clear service and data specifications that speed implementation and support mandation. Currently leading planning data reform at MHCLG, Colm blends hands-on systems thinking with design-led delivery, having also built digital capability programmes across Welsh Government and run a long-standing freelance practice. He has a technical roots in AI and computer science from Edinburgh and a pragmatic history in engineering and release management, which helps him bridge design, policy and operational reality. Known for making invisible complexity visible, he focuses on practical, auditable systems that genuinely help people and organisations.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
2:1, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, 2:1, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at The University of EdinburghSt John Fishers
Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (84)
converting9
planning9
prototyping9
tiddlywiki8
registers8
datasets8
django-templates8
nunjucks7
data-gov7
twig-templates7
architecture7
sdk7
prototypes7
jinja27
linting6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
crossgovernmentservices/CSL
Aug 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:115 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
digital-land-attic/dataset
Feb 2020 - Jun 2021
Dataset pages, now replaced by digital-land.info/dataset
Contributions:16 PRs, 78 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 3 months
datasetslanddatasetdigital-land
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