Des Holmes
Technical Consultant at Waltz
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDes Holmes is a seasoned technical consultant and product development leader based in London, with over 20 years delivering SaaS, DevOps and cloud solutions for startups through global blue-chip clients. He combines hands-on engineering in Node.js, Next.js, NestJS and Docker with strategic DevOps and Azure architecture work, regularly consolidating infrastructure and introducing DTAP delivery pipelines. As a former VP of Engineering and Co-CTO, he has scaled teams across onshore/offshore boundaries, established development standards, and driven platform architecture revisions that enabled product growth. Recent roles emphasize AI and Azure cloud-native deployments, reflecting a shift from creative technical leadership to cloud-first, data-enabled products. He brings a rare mix of creative design roots (BA Hons in Illustration and Design) and deep operational rigour, which he applies to developer experience and delivery tooling. Outside client work he documents his thinking and tooling at dholmes.co.uk, signalling an interest in sharing practical patterns for teams in production.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BA (hons) Illustration and Design, BA (hons) Illustration and Design at Lincolnshire and Humberside University, Hull.
Github Skills (48)
quest9
nytimes9
artificial-intelligence9
python9
corona9
ai8
openai8
historical7
carbon-emissions7
climate-change6
text-processing6
text-based6
csv5
rest-api5
nodejs5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
desholmes/covid-19-uk-viz
Jul 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 15 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 1 month
desholmes/acr-tag-deleter
Jan 2021 - Mar 2023
Delete Release Candidate (RC) docker image tags from Azure Container Registry (ACR)
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 2 months
acrazureazure-devopsazure-pipelinesdeveloper-tools
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