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
75reputation
5kreached
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2questions
Github Skills (153)
navbar10
multimarkdown10
handlebars10
kotlin10
kramdown10
markdown9
dao9
tooltips9
modals9
spinners9
commonmark9
template-engine9
svelte-component9
korge9
pdf9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
v79/Cantilever
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Creating a cloud-first static website generator using AWS servers such as S3 and Lambda. Transforms markdown files into HTML.
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 146 commits in 2 months
awsmarkdown
v79/bascule-lib
Dec 2018 - Jul 2026
Shared library for bascule.
Contributions:7 PRs, 26 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 8 months
shared-librarystatic-site-generator
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