Phil Wilson
Deputy CTO at Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Wilson is a seasoned software engineering leader with 17 years' experience building and scaling multidisciplinary teams across government, non-profit and commercial sectors, now serving as Deputy CTO at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. He combines hands-on technical fluency in Java, C#, Ruby on Rails, Python, TypeScript/Kotlin and PHP with a proven track record of driving digital transformation, technical governance and delivery roadmaps. Phil has led large departments (up to 50 people), created data platforms on Azure, reduced security and maintenance overheads through coding standards and automation, and steered critical pandemic and energy-crisis programmes where clear communication and fast adaptability were essential. As a consultant and director at Building Better Products he helps organisations align product needs with robust architecture and deployments, and he’s known for turning stakeholder complexity into pragmatic delivery practices. Notably, he blends executive strategy with a developer’s mindset—still contributing to open source and occasionally summing it up simply as “I rock.”
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Applied Computer Science, BSc Applied Computer Science at University of Reading
Github Skills (59)
editor9
http-api9
microsoft9
electron9
visual-studio-code9
vscode-extension9
typescript9
visual-studio9
vscode9
java8
api-client8
rest7
sql7
api7
database7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pipwilson/blog
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Source code for https://philwilson.org/blog/
Contributions:2 PRs, 251 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
ministryofjustice/hmpps-sentence-plan-ui
Jun 2024 - Apr 2025
Sentence Planning UI
Contributions:308 reviews, 290 PRs, 469 pushes in 9 months
hmpps
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