Steve Lorek
Technical Lead (Contract) at Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Greater Southampton Area United Kingdom
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SeniorSteve Lorek is a Technical Architect based in Southampton with over 25 years in software and more than a decade of focused delivery in government and enterprise digital services. He combines hands-on development and DevOps experience with leadership of multi-disciplinary teams to design resilient, scalable architectures—from greenfield microservices and event streaming to Kubernetes on AWS. His recent work includes improving outcomes for children and families at the Department for Education and designing payment and high-throughput systems for the Ministry of Justice that handled £1.5bn annually. Steve has repeatedly led migrations, CI/CD adoption and API-driven integrations (HMRC, payment gateways, Open Banking) while keeping an eye on operational performance and automated testing. Comfortable in both product and consultancy roles, he’s known for turning complex legacy estates into cloud-native, auditable services and for shipping pragmatic technical vision under tight deadlines. An erstwhile CTO and frequent contractor across finance, media and public sector projects, he blends commercial pragmatism with deep Ruby and AWS expertise.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (57)
psql10
rails9
adp9
database9
emit8
ruby8
nodejs8
billing8
rendering8
cloud-platform7
cbo7
react7
frontend7
expressionengine6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
OfficeForProductSafetyAndStandards/product-safety-database
Sep 2019 - Feb 2023
Product safety database
Contributions:694 reviews, 313 commits, 966 PRs in 3 years 4 months
safetydatabase
OfficeForProductSafetyAndStandards/antivirus
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
Antivirus API used by Cosmetics and PSD apps
Contributions:4 reviews, 17 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year
antivirusapicosmeticspsd
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