David Watson
Technical Lead at RWS Group
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Watson is a Technical Lead with 11+ years of hands-on experience specialising in DevOps, build and deployment engineering, and configuration management for enterprise translation software. Currently leading DevOps-focused development for Trados at RWS, he architects CI/CD pipelines, artifact feeds and automated deployments across Azure DevOps and GitHub while mentoring engineering teams. His background includes reworking complex installation and update systems for SDL/Trados products using Wix, InstallShield, Chef and custom C# tooling, reflecting deep expertise in installer ecosystems and Windows deployment automation. David combines long-term platform stewardship—from legacy VB6/Classic ASP systems to modern cloud tooling—with a pragmatic focus on repeatable, auditable delivery. Notably, he has driven migrations to VSTS/Git and built bespoke bootstrapper and patching solutions that kept large product suites shipping reliably. Based in Sheffield, he pairs systems-level thinking with developer-facing tooling to reduce operational friction and accelerate releases.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Management Training, Management Training at Jardine GriffinScrum training, Scrum training at Mark SummersIntroduction to AWS, Introduction to AWS at Cloud AcademyScaled Agile Framework, Scaled Agile Framework at CA TechnologiesBTEC OND, Computer Technology, BTEC OND, Computer Technology at Barnsley CollegeSecure Code Security Training, Secure Code Security Training at SkillsoftBEng(hons), Software Engineering, Incomplete, BEng(hons), Software Engineering, Incomplete at The University of SheffieldNVQ 2 &3, software production, NVQ 2 &3, software production at Kalamazoo training, Sheffield
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Github Skills (62)
combo10
perfect10
microsoft10
windows10
windows-package-manager10
manifest10
windows-service10
mdt10
azure-devops10
azure-pipelines10
powershell10
winget10
package-manager10
sdl9
filemaker9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wyrdfish/ShareAndEnjoy
Nov 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
wyrdfish/Paket.CredentialProvider.Gen2Support
Apr 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 1 push, 2 tags in 1 year 10 months
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