Jacob Ashdown
Engineering Lead Lead Technical Architect at Akvo
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Ashdown is an engineering leader and technical architect with 12 years’ experience building and shipping web applications across Typescript, Node, Python, PHP and Ruby. Currently leading architecture at Akvo after senior engineering and management roles at Viamo, he combines hands-on full‑stack development with roadmap ownership, people management and Scrum-driven continuous improvement. He has a track record of taking products from inception to production and mentoring teams to deliver fast, reliable iterations. With an MSc in Internet Systems and a background spanning government, fintech and civic-tech, he brings pragmatic architecture choices informed by diverse sector constraints. Colleagues know him for translating complex requirements into maintainable systems and for balancing delivery velocity with long-term technical health.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Internet Systems and E-Business, Master of Science (MSc), Internet Systems and E-Business at Durham University
Github Skills (58)
ansible-collections10
rendering10
querying10
backbone10
visualization9
puppet9
resource-management9
external8
deprecated8
ushahidi8
infrastructure8
infiniband7
api-platform7
api7
flask7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/performanceplatform-collector
Sep 2013 - Sep 2015
Collect data and send it to the Performance Platform
Contributions:76 commits, 10 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 11 months
performancecollect
alphagov/pp-smokey
Mar 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 6 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 5 months
testingperformancesmoke-testssmoke
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