John Kennard
Technical Architect at Government Digital Service
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Kennard is a Technical Architect in London with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and delivering end-to-end systems, notably inventing the world’s first mobile chip-and-PIN mPOS and taking it from prototype to acquisition by Monitise and absorption into IBM. He combines broad "versatilist" expertise—architecture, development, UX advocacy and troubleshooting—with a knack for finding the true causes of business inefficiency and avoiding management-speak. At GDS he re-architected GOV.UK Verify integrations and helped lay foundations for fraud tracking and cross-department identity initiatives, and now applies that product-minded rigour to accessibility monitoring across the public sector. Comfortable shifting between deep technical work and managing outsourced delivery, he excels at designing software that users actually like to use while meeting operational needs. He’s unusually good at clear, pragmatic writing about complex systems, which helps bridge stakeholders and development teams.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Whitfield Fishponds School, BristolPhysical Electronics, Physical Electronics at University of Bradford
Github Skills (22)
sector10
sampling9
axe9
verify9
devtools8
origami8
accessibility8
testing8
dropwizard6
java6
monitoring6
digital-identity4
documentation4
authentication3
wordpress2
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/accessibility-monitoring
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
Tool(s) for sampling/monitoring/testing accessibility of public sector websites
Contributions:101 commits, 20 PRs, 73 pushes in 2 years 11 months
sectortestingpublic-sectoraccessibility-testingaxe
RacingHippo/choir-roster
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
Wordpress plugin for managing choir membership and events
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 5 branches in 4 months
wordpresseventswordpress-pluginchoir
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