Paul Coupe
Principal Developer at Ministry of Justice UK
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Coupe is a Principal Developer with three decades of experience delivering user-focused digital services across UK government and private sectors, currently leading development at the Ministry of Justice. He specialises in front-end engineering, accessibility, and service design, and has driven GDS-compliant projects from alpha through public beta while also assessing other teams against the standard. A pragmatic delivery lead and mentor, Paul has built and run communities of practice, recruited and coached developers at every level, and organised line management structures to scale delivery. He brings hands-on expertise in Node.js, HTML/CSS, REST APIs and modern agile practices from roles at the Home Office, DWP and multiple freelance and consultancy engagements. Notably, he has a track record of converting prototypes into production-ready services and embedding reusable UI frameworks across government portfolios.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Studies, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Studies at Sheffield Hallam UniversityMA Information Technology and Management, MA Information Technology and Management at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (22)
sentence9
frontend8
backend8
api8
cloud-platform7
mixins7
mustache6
bootstrap6
go5
choices5
ui-elements5
middleware5
visualization4
removal4
docker4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ministryofjustice/sentence-planning
Oct 2019 - May 2020
Sentence Planning
Contributions:1 review, 370 commits, 145 PRs in 7 months
planningsentence
ministryofjustice/hmpps-assess-risks-and-needs-prototypes
Sep 2022 - Jun 2023
Gov.UK Prototype Kit. This repository is defined and managed in Terraform
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 9 months
govdefinedprototype-kitprototypemoj-cloud-platform
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