David Thompson
Lead Software Engineer at D21T Limited
High Wycombe, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Thompson is a Lead Software Engineer with 13 years’ experience delivering scalable, production-grade systems across public and private sectors, currently leading engineering at WPP and running his own consultancy, D21T Limited. He’s a full‑stack practitioner comfortable in Java, Node.js and cloud-native platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes), with a track record modernising legacy services into robust, tested architectures—most recently driving the DARTS transcription platform to handle tens of thousands of daily requests with KEDA-driven autoscaling. He combines hands-on coding with team leadership and mentorship, having led teams of 10+ engineers and established rigorous CI/CD and test suites (Playwright, Mocha, CircleCI). He excels at shipping end-to-end products under tight timelines (e.g., GAMSTOP launched in six months) and enjoys quickly adopting new tools to solve real-world problems. Based in High Wycombe, he brings a pragmatic blend of product thinking, operational awareness and a paper trail of delivery across government and enterprise domains.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
A-Levels, A-Levels at Maidstone Grammar SchoolBachelor of Science (BSc) Computing and IT, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computing and IT at University of Surrey
Github Skills (68)
jenkins-sds10
flux9
visa8
development-tools8
concurrency-limits8
circleci-orb7
orb7
frontend7
k8s6
dns6
styles6
jenkins6
queue5
winston5
azure5
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
appvia/docker-aws-eks-toolset
Mar 2019 - Oct 2019
A toolset image for managing Kubernetes deployments on AWS EKS.
Contributions:5 releases, 12 commits, 2 PRs in 6 months
ekskubernetesaws-eksdeploymentsaws
hmcts/sscs-cor-frontend
Jul 2018 - Feb 2020
Frontend for Manage Your Appeal (MYA)
Contributions:213 commits, 169 PRs, 245 pushes in 1 year 7 months
jenkins-cft-j-zjenkins-cft
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