Steve Hunt
Lead Developer at Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Harrogate, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Hunt is a pragmatic lead developer with 13+ years in software, currently providing technical leadership at Defra and aligning teams and architects to reduce duplication and raise consistency across services. He excels in cloud-native, containerised backends—particularly in Azure—using Docker, Kubernetes and Helm, while remaining comfortable across frontend work in JavaScript/TypeScript and C#. His experience spans the full product lifecycle from solution design through production support, with strong practice in TDD/BDD, pair programming and CI/CD. Prior senior roles at NHS Choices and a long tenure at Moneysupermarket.com give him deep operational insight into building resilient, event-driven and microservice architectures. He combines hands-on delivery with a knack for identifying reusable components and pragmatic governance that speeds teams without stifling autonomy. Based in Harrogate, he brings a blend of technical depth and cross-team facilitation that often surfaces hidden duplication and cost savings.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
A Levels, Maths, Physics, Computing, A Levels, Maths, Physics, Computing at Sir John Deans CollegeBA (Hons), Business Management, BA (Hons), Business Management at The Manchester Metropolitan University
English
Github Skills (119)
microsoft-azure10
relation10
api-specification10
azure10
karabiner10
microsoft10
docker-image10
pharmacy10
jenkins10
api9
specification9
vim9
jenkins-shared-library9
azure-function-app9
tmux9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
nhsuk/gp-redirect
Mar 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:14 releases, 60 PRs, 81 pushes in 11 months
actively-maintained
nhsuk/profiles-db-elastic
May 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 33 PRs, 53 pushes in 9 months
actively-maintained
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