Ed Packard
Summary
Edward Packard is a Senior Software Engineer with four years of industry experience building back-end systems for public and private sector clients, now at Made Tech after roles at Valtech and Kin + Carta. Trained at the selective Makers Academy and grounded in OOP, TDD and Agile practices, he brings a disciplined, test-first approach to delivering maintainable code across the stack. His earlier decade as a university Lecturer and a PhD in International History (LSE) give him unusually strong communication, research and mentoring skills for a developer, helping bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders. He began programming on an Amstrad CPC 464, a nod to long-standing curiosity that drives pragmatic problem solving today. Colleagues value his collaborative, collegiate mindset and enthusiasm for continuous improvement and craftsmanship. Based in Ipswich, he combines academic rigor with hands-on engineering to deliver thoughtful, well-documented solutions.
4 years of coding experience
Github Skills (2)
backend3
json-schema1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
govuk-once/onward-journey-aws
Mar 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 30 pushes, 7 branches in 3 months
govuk-once/gds-eligibility-chat-frontend
Dec 2025 - Mar 2026
Contributions:6 PRs, 27 pushes, 12 branches in 3 months
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