Craig Bass
Principal Software Engineer at Made Tech
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorCraig Bass is a Principal Software Engineer and hands-on technical leader based in London with 12 years of experience building and modernising public sector digital services. He specialises in aligning engineering teams to product strategy, lowering barriers for collaboration, and applying pragmatic architecture patterns to rapidly deliver backlogs. At Made Tech he has led tech strategy and acted as Technical Principal for major government accounts (DIT/DBT, HMRC, MoJ), combining client-facing advisory work with delivery and platform-level decisions. He helped shape national skills policy as a co-author of the UK DevOps Engineer apprenticeship standard and previously scaled an internal academy to feed entry-level engineering pipelines. Known for rolling up his sleeves to ship code and win hearts and minds, he pairs commercial responsibility with mentoring to leave teams more capable than he found them. A pragmatic polymath, he blends cloud infrastructure, TDD/ATDD practices and multi-language experience to make modernisation both achievable and sustainable.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
amazon-ecs10
solidus10
aws-copilot10
copilot10
runner10
in-progress10
rendering10
codebuild10
npm-cli10
rails10
tdd10
nodejs10
amazon10
ecr10
storefront10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
craigjbass/FrankServer
Mar 2019 - Apr 2021
Ever want to just route HTTP requests to some arbitrary code in .NET Core without all of the complexity of .NET MVC?
Contributions:5 releases, 68 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 1 month
routenetcore3tddasp-net-core-mvcnet-mvc
madetech/clean-architecture
Dec 2016 - Jan 2019
A (work-in-progress) guide to the methodology behind Made Tech Flavoured Clean Architecture
Contributions:60 commits, 14 PRs, 63 pushes in 2 years 1 month
solid-principlesin-progresscleanmethodologyarchitecture
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