Liam Davison
Software Engineering Manager at The Scottish Government
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLiam Davison is a software engineering manager at the Scottish Government with nine years of progressive experience delivering web and CMS-driven services and now leading a small team to define policy and standards for software development. He has hands-on roots as a Java/CMS developer and technical lead, specialising in FirstSpirit CMS, JBoss Portal, Apache Solr and Hibernate-based data modelling, and is currently driving a cloud-first, serverless upgrade project. Liam’s background spans application support, defect and change management, and close collaboration with product owners, analysts and infrastructure teams, giving him a strong operational perspective on running production services. He pairs pragmatic engineering with people development, actively growing and mentoring his team while formalising governance. An early career in publishing and content editing informs his strengths in content modelling and editorial workflows, a useful but often-overlooked asset for government digital services. Based in Edinburgh, he explores web, serverless and Android development in Kotlin in his spare time, keeping his hands-on skills sharp.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (196)
spinners10
buttons10
navbar10
dao10
multimarkdown10
handlebars10
kotlin10
kramdown10
compose9
accordion9
sql9
tooltips9
modals9
mustache9
template-engine9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
v79/Caisson
Mar 2018 - Aug 2023
Contributions:5 PRs, 28 pushes, 10 branches in 5 years 5 months
sparkkotlinscalamvcmvc-framework
v79/bascule-lib
Dec 2018 - Jan 2025
Shared library for bascule.
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 2 months
shared-library
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