Kevin Dew
Lead Software Developer at Government Digital Service
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKevin Dew is a Lead Software Developer based in London with 15 years’ experience building and maintaining web platforms for public sector and commercial clients. He has progressed through hands-on engineering to leadership roles at the UK Government Digital Service, driving backend Rails work, front-end build and linting improvements, and test automation to keep large projects robust and maintainable. Kevin contributes to well-known open-source efforts such as GOV.UK Frontend and the 24pullrequests initiative, with practical expertise integrating third-party APIs, presenter patterns, and CI-friendly style tooling. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he blends developer-level coding with team-level delivery and governance, and brings a computing degree from The Open University alongside a track record of shipping auditable, production-grade systems.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computing, 2:1, Bachelor’s Degree, Computing, 2:1 at The Open University
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Github Skills (33)
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:273 reviews, 549 commits, 293 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kevin's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the Whitehall application, a government content publishing platform. They implemented features for including featured policies in the organisation representation and introduced a new presenter class for featured policies within organizations. Additionally, the user addressed bug fixes by removing obsolete code and correcting issues related to links. These actions suggest the user is working on enhancing data presentation and fixing application defects.
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alphagov/govuk-frontend
Oct 2018 - Mar 2022
GOV.UK Frontend contains the code you need to start building a user interface for government platforms and services.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kevin's contributions primarily involved configuring and maintaining style linting within the GOV.UK Frontend project. They added and configured `stylelint-config-gds`, integrating it with the build process to enforce code style. They refactored the build process, replacing `gulp-stylelint` with direct Stylelint integration and restored style linting in the watch task. The user also removed and restored tasks related to test and copy assets, maintaining the project's build and testing workflows.
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