Gavin Boulton
Lead Software Engineer at Marks and Spencer (via 101 Ways)
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGavin Boulton is a Lead Software Engineer with 12 years' experience designing and delivering secure, scalable Node.js APIs and microservices—primarily using TypeScript, GraphQL and REST—across public and private sector organisations. He specialises in event-driven architectures and cloud-native deployments, routinely producing well-tested systems deployed via CI/CD to AWS with tooling such as Terraform, CDK, Docker and Kubernetes. Gavin has led technical migrations and automation efforts—moving resources into infrastructure-as-code, introducing monitoring/observability, and productionising search and batch processing pipelines—demonstrating a strong focus on reliability and auditability. His background spans high-compliance domains (HM Passport Office, Santander, Home Office) and high-scale consumer platforms (Gousto, News UK), giving him a pragmatic balance of security and product-driven delivery. Comfortable in cross-functional and remote teams, he pairs hands-on engineering with technical leadership and a history of open, test-first practices. Based in St Albans, he brings a designer’s attention to detail from an MA/BA in Graphic Design, which often shows up in thoughtful API ergonomics and developer experience.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MA Graphic Design, MA Graphic Design at The University of Salford
Github Skills (127)
transloadit10
instagram10
uploader10
testing10
uppy10
encoding10
resumable10
javascript10
modular10
tus10
webbrowser10
mixpanel10
dog10
dropbox10
open-source10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gavboulton/dotfiles
Dec 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:32 PRs, 21 pushes, 34 branches in 3 years 4 months
UKHomeOffice/passports-frontend-toolkit
Feb 2015 - May 2016
Set of common UI patterns/styles for hmpo projects
Contributions:15 commits, 41 PRs, 61 pushes in 1 year 3 months
stylespatterns
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