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 (99)
spring-security10
cloud-platform10
backend10
login-system10
api10
jwt10
go10
kotlin10
shift10
frontend10
pattern9
government-data9
auth9
sso-authentication9
poc9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ministryofjustice/keyworker-api
Feb 2018 - Sep 2021
An API providing backend functionality for allocations
Contributions:6 reviews, 163 commits, 208 PRs in 3 years 6 months
backendspringbootapihmppskotlin
ministryofjustice/hmpps-locations-inside-prison-api
Jan 2024 - Jul 2026
HMPPS Location Inside Prison Service API
Contributions:213 reviews, 631 PRs, 689 pushes in 2 years 6 months
hmppsapi
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