Ken Lea
Lead Associate - Systems Development
Rushmoor, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKen Lea is a lead systems developer with 11 years of professional experience building scalable, cloud-ready backends and microservices for the insurance sector. Currently at WTW, he architects and implements performant SaaS platform services, drawing on deep expertise in C#, .NET, databases and Azure migrations. His background includes hands-on roles from sole developer startups to functional architect, where he led migrations to Git, introduced TDD, and enabled multi-tenancy and data pipelines using Azure Data Factory and Durable Functions. Comfortable across the full stack, Ken combines practical performance tuning (supporting high-throughput analytics) with disciplined engineering practices and cross-functional collaboration. Based in Rushmoor, UK, he brings a pragmatic focus on maintainability and operational scalability honed over a long track record of production-critical insurance systems.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computing Computers, BSc Computing Computers at University of Sunderland
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Github Skills (131)
gulp10
wrapper10
wordpress9
vagrant9
php-imap9
vagrantfile9
owin-middleware9
mail-parser9
virtualbox9
email-parser9
api8
dotnet8
sdk8
docker-desktop8
cake-build8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cake-contrib/Cake.Grunt
Jan 2017 - Dec 2022
A set of aliases for Cake to help with running Grunt scripts as part of a build (copy of Philo/cake-gulp for Grunt)
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 12 PRs in 6 years
gruntaliasesgulp
Tanzy/Tanzy.Xunit
Jun 2021 - Sep 2024
Extensions for xUnit
Contributions:15 PRs, 77 pushes, 24 branches in 3 years 3 months
testingextensionsxunit
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