Sophie Brown
Lead Developer at Ministry of Justice UK
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSophie Brown is a Lead Developer based in Stony Stratford with nine years’ experience delivering government and enterprise web platforms. She has progressed from developer roles at GDS and Viagogo to senior and leadership positions at Microsoft and the Ministry of Justice, blending hands-on backend work with team and delivery leadership. Sophie’s contributions to notable open-source projects such as alphagov/whitehall show practical expertise in backend systems, database seeding, configuration management and legacy redirects for high-profile public-facing services. She has startup experience as a co-founder, giving her product-minded perspective alongside strong operational skills in continuous deployment and dependency management. Colleagues describe her as pragmatic and detail-oriented, able to translate complex legacy infrastructure into maintainable, production-ready systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (12)
ruby10
seeding10
ruby-rails10
rails10
datagovuk10
seed10
redis9
configuration-management9
postgresql8
web-frontend7
front7
frontend7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Apr 2019 - Jul 2021
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 15 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Sophie primarily contributed to the backend of the Whitehall application, with commits focused on database seeds, configuration, and error handling. They made modifications to database seeds and application configurations. Their work also involved updating links, and redirecting legacy pages within the application. The user demonstrated expertise in managing the application's dependencies.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
alphagov/govuk-related-links-recommender
Jun 2019 - Dec 2021
Machine learning model to recommend related content
Contributions:12 reviews, 86 commits, 100 PRs in 2 years 6 months
data-sciencemachine-learninggovukrecommendcontainer
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