Josh Finch
Chief Technology Officer at Ologist
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorJosh Finch is a pragmatic CTO and cloud engineering leader with nine years of dedicated cloud architecture and automation experience and 14 years of broader technical practice across public sector, fintech, and digital transformation. He has led large-scale migrations (notably Oracle to AWS), built nationwide PaaS platforms for the NHS, and delivered secure, production-grade infrastructure and CI/CD at pace—helping startups achieve ISO 27001 and shepherding companies through acquisition. Hands-on across Terraform, GitHub Actions, Python, containers and SRE practices, he blends platform engineering with product-focused delivery and team mentorship. Based in Leeds, he’s known for turning legacy estates into low-ops, testable platforms and for embedding operational reliability and security into development lifecycles.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (51)
api-platform8
keystore8
filemaker8
public-key8
aws7
api7
ecs-task-definition6
box2d6
proxy6
heroku5
aws-ecs5
jwt5
typescript5
threejs5
javascript4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
boopmail/python-jmap
Jul 2023 - Dec 2023
Idiomatic Python library for working with the JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP)
Contributions:1 review, 33 PRs, 58 pushes in 5 months
jmappython
openfinch/openfinch
Feb 2021 - Sep 2025
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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