David Heath
Head Of Engineering Enablement at Liberating Structures London
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Heath is a seasoned engineering leader and systems architect with 17 years of experience, currently heading Engineering Enablement at the UK Government Digital Service (GDS). He blends deep technical hands‑on experience—dating back to building GOV.UK and contributing to notable repos like alphagov/whitehall—with a people-centred approach that builds trust and develops high-performing teams. At GDS he has moved between developer, tech lead and profession-head roles, shaping publishing platforms, payments services and organisation-wide engineering practices. An experienced facilitator, he designs and runs large-scale workshops (15–80 people) to align goals and embed lasting change. He also founded a local Liberating Structures meetup, reflecting a sustained commitment to collaborative leadership techniques that improve how teams work.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Cambridge
French
Github Skills (4)
html10
backend10
api7
apim7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Feb 2012 - Feb 2018
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:981 commits, 28 PRs, 37 pushes in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:David's contributions center on implementing features and fixing bugs related to a news article summary text and helper functions for building content. They refactored and improved code for displaying news article content and associated images. The user demonstrated a proficiency in working with the Govspeak helper functions and the underlying Nokogiri markup to render complex content and implementing HTML formatting for content display. They also modified supporting code to account for image attachments.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
LibStructLDN/liberatingstructureslondon.org.uk
Mar 2019 - Jul 2024
Website of the London Liberating Structures Meetup group
Contributions:4 PRs, 98 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 5 months
meetup-groupinheritancejekyllgwt
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