James Stewart
Partner & CTO at Public Digital
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Stewart is a seasoned technology leader and Partner & CTO who has spent over two decades helping governments and large organisations adopt internet-era practices and deliver resilient digital services. He co-founded the UK Government Digital Service and played a hands-on role in building GOV.UK and its publishing platform, later shaping cross-government tech policy as Deputy CTO and influencing the formation of the National Cyber Security Centre. At Public Digital he leads global impact work with international institutions and major non-profits, combining strategic advisory with practical engineering and DevOps experience (including improvements to the Government Service Design Manual build and search). He is a regular speaker, mentor and non-executive director who embeds agile, user-centred and open-source approaches into large transformations, and is known for translating high-level policy into operational platforms that save public money. Based in the UK with a BSc in Physics, he still keeps hands-on skills sharp through consulting and open-source contributions.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Physics, BSc Physics at University of Reading
Github Skills (8)
automation10
bash10
automations10
jekyll10
cicd10
git9
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/government-service-design-manual
Dec 2012 - Feb 2016
Government Service Design Manual
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:79 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on automating and improving the build and deployment process of the Government Service Design Manual. They introduced a search functionality by integrating a plugin to index content and copy it to another application. The user also addressed issues related to the build process by renaming a search index file to avoid an infinite loop during auto-mode updates within the Jekyll environment.
manualgovernmentservice-design
alphagov/need-o-tron
Jun 2011 - Apr 2013
Contributions:193 commits in 1 year 10 months
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