Nev Stokes
Senior Security Engineer at Postcode Lottery UK
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNev Stokes is a senior security engineer and PHP specialist with over two decades of web development experience and 12 years in professional roles delivering secure, maintainable object-oriented systems. Based in Edinburgh, he has progressed from senior web developer roles through municipal and lottery sectors to lead security efforts at Postcode Lottery UK since 2020. He combines deep PHP craftsmanship with practical security stewardship, applying established design patterns and standards to reduce risk across large public-facing applications. Nev’s background includes long-term agency experience and public sector work, giving him a pragmatic approach to balancing feature delivery with auditability and compliance. Colleagues value his meticulous coding style and ability to translate security requirements into developer-friendly patterns. He pairs a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from Heriot-Watt with a track record of improving security posture in production systems.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
Stackoverflow
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amazon-web-services
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Github Skills (89)
pagination10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
aws-cli10
amazon-web-services10
php10
cloud-development-kit10
aws10
infrastructure-as-code10
dailymotion9
youtube9
sql9
html9
htaccess9
semantic-versioning9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nevstokes/dotfiles
May 2015 - Jan 2026
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 9 months
edinburghcouncil/datasets
Oct 2013 - Mar 2015
Open Data for Edinburgh
Contributions:18 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 1 year 4 months
open-dataedinburghdata
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