David Elliott
Lead Technical Architect at Ministry of Justice UK
Nailsea, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Elliott is a Lead Technical Architect with nine years of hands-on experience driving large-scale AWS modernisation and cloud migration programmes within the UK Ministry of Justice. He combines deep DevOps and infrastructure-as-code expertise (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible) with practical developer experience in Java, Ruby and container platforms to move legacy Oracle/Java systems into resilient cloud-native architectures. An AWS-certified engineer who routinely automates CI/CD and GitHub workflows, he has contributed to the Modernisation Platform repository to streamline deployments and environment configuration. Known for translating complex technical trade-offs into clear business-facing guidance, he thrives in agile teams modernising critical public-sector services.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Lipson Community CollegeBSc (Hons), Chemistry, BSc (Hons), Chemistry at University of Bristol
Github Skills (8)
terraformer10
infrastructure-as-code10
github-ci10
githubaction-workflow10
terraform10
deployment-automation10
scripting9
bash9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
A place for the core work of the Modernisation Platform • This repository is defined and managed in Terraform
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1308 reviews, 1218 commits, 1502 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:David's commits primarily revolve around modifying and improving the infrastructure management and deployment workflows of the Modernisation Platform. They are responsible for ensuring the correct creation and modification of various files, including GitHub Actions workflow files. The user also fixed bugs in existing bash scripts and added features such as automatically generating Dependabot files. Furthermore, the user implemented automations to configure Github environments, streamlining the deployment process.
terraformmodernisation-platformcivil-servicearchitecture-decisionsaws
davidkelliott/training
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
Training resources
Contributions:10 PRs, 39 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 3 months
machine-learningtraining
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