Seb Ashton
Director Of Engineering at Smart Pension
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarSeb Ashton is a Director of Engineering based in London with 13 years of experience building and leading cloud-native platforms and data-focused engineering teams. At Smart Pension he progressed from Tech Lead to Director, now overseeing Accounts and Cloud Engineering after previously leading Data, Technology, and Infrastructure—demonstrating a blend of hands-on delivery and strategic leadership. He’s comfortable in customer-facing roles and has a strong practical background in Ruby on Rails and backend systems, including contributing to GOV.UK’s Whitehall link-checker integration and webhook handling. Seb pairs engineering craft (and a fondness for coffee and cake) with coaching, roadmap ownership, and operational delivery across AWS and platform tooling.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
database-migrations10
ruby-rails10
apidoc10
rails10
ruby10
datagovuk10
api10
activerecord10
database-migration10
testing9
postgresql9
rspec9
unit-test9
minitest9
frontend8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 27 PRs, 71 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Seb focused on developing and maintaining backend functionalities related to a link checker API. This included creating models and migrations for the API's reports and links within a database (likely ActiveRecord/Rails). Furthermore, the user implemented webhook verification logic within the application's controller and service layer to handle updates from the Link Checker API, alongside writing tests to validate the functionality. The user also updated code to change the `uri` column type in the database.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
madetech/jquery-navobile
Jan 2013 - Sep 2016
Contributions:1 release, 35 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 8 months
jqueryjavascriptmobile-navigationjquery-pluginnavigation
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