Phil Whiles
GCP Technical Lead at Office for National Statistics
Mid Devon, England, United Kingdom
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SeniorPhil Whiles is a GCP Technical Lead and seasoned Java/J2EE engineer with three decades of IT experience, currently heading development on the Office for National Statistics' Integrated Data Services Hub. He blends hands-on Java backend development and cloud-native DevOps—building CI/CD, Terraform/Kubernetes deployments, and Concourse/Cloud Build pipelines—with pragmatic architecture for large public-sector data platforms. His career spans banking, broadcasting and government projects where he’s delivered high-scale census and finance systems, integrating complex data sources and secure researcher access. Comfortable across legacy enterprise stacks and modern reactive services (Kotlin, Spring WebFlux, R2DBC), he repeatedly designs pragmatic solutions that balance operational governance with rapid delivery. Based in Mid Devon, he’s driven by continual learning and the craft of integrating new technologies into proven architectures.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (72)
cloud-platform10
fretboard10
layout10
journal9
yang9
scales9
java9
data-journalism8
command-line8
go8
census8
spring-boot8
api7
issue-tracking7
common-library7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ONSdigital/census-int-case-api-client
Oct 2019 - Apr 2021
Library project for Census Integrations projects that need to call the RM CaseAPISvc rest API
Contributions:1 review, 20 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 year 6 months
apicensusintegrationsneedrest
ONSdigital/census-mock-case-api-service
Oct 2019 - Apr 2021
Mock Case API service to be used for Cucumber and dev testing in the absence of a functional CaseApiService
Contributions:3 reviews, 28 PRs, 56 pushes in 1 year 6 months
apidevtestingbddmocking
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