Michael Willis
Technical Architect at Ministry of Justice UK
Greater Sheffield Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Willis is a Technical Architect with over 30 years’ experience designing, developing and delivering enterprise-grade systems across government, finance, telecom, education and e-commerce. He combines deep Java/J2EE and cloud expertise (Spring, Hibernate, REST, AWS) with hands-on delivery experience from lead developer to technical architect roles, including current work modernising prison and probation services for the Ministry of Justice. A seasoned people leader and trainer, he has repeatedly driven Agile, BDD/TDD practices, microservice and DevOps adoption while mentoring teams and owning product quality. His background in electronic engineering and an MSc in Software Systems Technology inform a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to architecture and integration. Notably comfortable bridging legacy migrations and modern cloud-native platforms, he is equally at home tuning high-throughput transactional systems and shaping citizen-facing digital services.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Cert Ed Education (Post-16), Cert Ed Education (Post-16) at Sheffield Hallam UniversityMSc Software Systems Technology, MSc Software Systems Technology at The University of Sheffield4 A levels applied maths physics geography general studies A Levels, 4 A levels applied maths physics geography general studies A Levels at Bishop Gore CP, Swansea
English
Github Skills (108)
cloud-platform10
backend10
api10
java10
go10
poc10
shift10
login-system9
pattern9
jwt9
location9
authentication9
government-data9
sso-authentication9
registers9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ministryofjustice/prison-api
May 2017 - Jan 2023
API for Nomis DB used by DPS applications and other apis and services
Contributions:2 releases, 255 reviews, 765 commits in 5 years 9 months
apiprisondpshmpps
ministryofjustice/dps-monitor
Mar 2018 - Jul 2022
Monitoring of DPS systems
Contributions:2 reviews, 113 commits, 49 PRs in 4 years 4 months
snmpmonitoringperldpshmpps
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