Ruben Arakelyan
Founder at Twenty Four Nine Development
St. Ives, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRuben Arakelyan is a pragmatic software founder and lead developer with 13 years of experience building resilient web platforms across public and private sectors. He has driven technical teams at the Government Digital Service and commercial products—shaping GOV.UK search, high-volume email subscription services, and event analytics at Hopin—while also leading product rewrites and integrations for Orderswift. Equally comfortable in hands-on back-end work and people leadership, Ruben has migrated services to AWS/Kubernetes, improved CI pipelines, and managed cross-team technical roadmaps. His open-source contributions include improving GOV.UK tooling and a Slack bot that publishes pull requests to channels, reflecting a focus on practical automation and developer experience. Based in St. Ives, England, he pairs clear, plain-spoken leadership with an appetite for tidy, maintainable code and pragmatic system design. Outside work he’s a family-oriented developer with roots in Armenia, which informs his collaborative, steady approach to engineering.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Applied Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Applied Computer Science at University of Reading
English, Armenian, Spanish
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Github Skills (26)
database-migrations10
wsh10
apidoc10
scripting10
configuration-management10
dhall10
bash10
rails10
api10
sql10
database-migration10
ruby-on-rails10
hal10
testing9
searching9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
binaryberry/seal
Jul 2016 - Apr 2018
This is a Slack bot that publishes a team's pull requests to their Slack Channel, once provided the organisation name, the team members' github names, and a list of repos to follow. It is my first 20% project at GDS.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 42 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ruben primarily focused on modifying the Slack bot's configuration and functionality. Their contributions involved updating the teams included in the morning and afternoon seals, removing outdated entries, and ensuring proper alignment with Slack channel names. They also implemented HTML encoding for pull request titles to prevent rendering issues and tidied up the team configurations. The user's work demonstrates a good understanding of the bot's internal structure and its integration with Slack.
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alphagov/whitehall
Jul 2016 - Jul 2019
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:327 commits, 291 PRs, 410 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Ruben primarily focused on back-end development, contributing to Whitehall's functionality. They added a search parameter to enhance the search results page and implemented a fix to address an "invalid specialist sector" error within the Whitehall admin interface. They also refactored the codebase to change all instances of 'unified\_search' to 'search' for consistency. Furthermore, the user made modifications related to handling attachments and meta descriptions.
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