Les George
Software Engineer at Companie house
Barry, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLes George is a pragmatic software engineer with over 30 years in development and a decade of recent experience leading Java-centric back-end teams at Companies House and other public bodies. He combines hands-on Java and AWS work—introducing microservices, OCR in ECS, Kafka messaging and mutation testing—with people leadership, mentoring and recruitment. Comfortable switching between coding, Unix/WebLogic deployment scripting and shaping Agile delivery, he has a track record of translating security and infrastructure changes into actionable Jira work for scrums. Les is notable for driving practical modernization (upgrading Java/Jersey, introducing Spring Boot) while preserving operational resilience and testability. Based in Barry, Wales, he brings a customer-focused mindset and a willingness to document and teach through recorded tutorials, making him as effective at onboarding engineers as delivering code.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) IT and Computing, Computing, BSc (Hons) IT and Computing, Computing at The Open UniversityHNC, Computer Studies, HNC, Computer Studies at Polytechnic of Wales
Github Skills (46)
json-api9
gateway7
api7
uri6
json6
extraction4
web-application4
docker4
tesseract4
python4
chips3
mongodb3
retrieval3
dms3
ocr3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
companieshouse/forms-enablement-api
May 2016 - Jan 2023
Forms Enablement Forms API JSON Gateway Service
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 57 PRs in 6 years 9 months
enablementapigateway-servicegatewayjson-api
companieshouse/styleguides
Oct 2017 - May 2022
Coding standards and other guidelines
Contributions:4 reviews, 28 commits, 17 PRs in 4 years 8 months
guidelinesstandards
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