Jamie Cobbett
Senior Software Engineer at GoCardless
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJamie Cobbett is a pragmatic Senior Software Engineer and tech lead with 14 years of hands-on experience and a 17-year engineering perspective, now at GoCardless after leading teams at Florence and FutureLearn. He focuses on shipping quality, user-centered products while deliberately cultivating team culture because he believes happy teams build better software. His background includes government work on the high-profile GOV.UK Whitehall platform, where he implemented permissioned SSO upgrades and security fixes—showing comfort with sensitive data and legacy migrations. Equally at home in backend systems and team leadership, Jamie brings consistent delivery, thoughtful technical stewardship, and a knack for quietly taking on the tricky infrastructure and migration problems others avoid.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Business IT, BSc (Hons) Business IT at Bournemouth University
Github Skills (20)
database-migrations10
rails10
activerecord10
database-migration10
ruby-on-rails10
authentication9
user-authentication9
schema-design9
permission9
db-schema9
database-schema9
schema9
database-design9
rights-management9
access-management9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Jun 2012 - Mar 2016
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:186 commits, 128 PRs, 209 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jamie primarily contributed to the backend aspects of the `whitehall` repository, which publishes government content. Their work included upgrading the `gds-sso` library to support permissions, adding and modifying database schema to accommodate user permissions, and implementing a data migration to update user permissions. Furthermore, the user addressed security concerns by fixing issues related to sign-in and debugging in the development environment.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
alphagov/omniauth-gds
Feb 2013 - Apr 2015
Omniauth strategy for GDS
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 2 months
gdsomniauth-strategyomniauthstrategygovuk
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