Ryan Forsyth
Senior Software Developer at Ministry of Justice UK
Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Forsyth is a senior full-stack software developer with over eight years of experience delivering production web applications for UK public sector organisations. He has progressed from software engineer roles at HM Land Registry to senior developer positions at the Ministry of Justice, routinely shipping testable code, automation tests, and fixes in live systems. Comfortable across Python and Java stacks (Flask, Spring Boot, Spark) and familiar with containers, CI/CD and messaging (Docker, OpenShift, Jenkins, RabbitMQ), he bridges backend services and front-end concerns to deliver end-to-end features. His day-to-day includes code review, owning user stories, and maintaining high test coverage through unit, integration and component tests. Based in Chesterfield, he pairs hands-on delivery with operational support experience—helping keep critical government services running reliably. An early mentor as a university PALS leader, he also brings a practical coaching mindset to team collaboration and knowledge sharing.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Plymouth
Github Skills (10)
service-provider10
cloud-platform10
go9
jwt7
api6
sso-authentication5
spring-security5
authentication5
auth4
verify3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ministryofjustice/access-to-probation
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:8 PRs, 7 pushes, 8 branches in 27 days
ministryofjustice/hmpps-find-and-refer-an-intervention-ui
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
UI for Find and Refer an Intervention Service
Contributions:37 reviews, 22 PRs, 35 pushes in 5 months
hmpps
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