Si Wilkins
Senior Software Developer at University of Cambridge
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSi Wilkins is a Tech Lead and Engineering Manager with 13 years of professional experience and a 17-year technical background spanning software development and DevOps. Currently leading DevOps work for postgraduate admissions and research portfolios at the University of Cambridge, he previously led DevOps teams and identity/auth infrastructure at the University of Sheffield. He combines hands-on expertise in web stacks (PHP, Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, Java) and infrastructure tooling (Terraform, Chef, Puppet, VMware, AWS) with a track record of migrating legacy systems to cloud and modern platforms. Si is known for empathetic team leadership and practical coaching that raises cross-team knowledge, communication, and continuous improvement. He has driven CI/CD, SSO/IdAM modernisation, and developer tooling initiatives that balanced operational reliability with developer productivity. Grounded in a Computer Science degree from Sheffield, he blends long-form engineering craft with strategic delivery in complex university IT environments.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at The University of Sheffield
Dutch, French
Stackoverflow
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525reached
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Github Skills (64)
markdown10
trello10
spring10
org-mode10
graph10
java10
knowledge-graph10
spring-boot10
spring-security9
knowledge-management9
clojure9
clojurescript9
cli9
command-line-tool9
macos8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
siwilkins/capistrano-nodejs
Jan 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
siwilkins/bible_passage
Jun 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 7 months
biblepassagesparsingrenderingparser
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