Thomas Leese
Senior Developer at NHS Digital
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThomas Leese is a Senior Developer with 14 years' experience delivering backend systems for UK public sector organisations, currently working at NHS Digital. He has a strong track record at Government Digital Service, Department for Education and Ministry of Justice, progressing from developer to tech lead on complex, consumer-facing government platforms. Thomas specializes in backend engineering and content-publishing integrations, contributing to high-profile open-source projects such as GOV.UK’s whitehall where he improved publishing workflows and dependency updates. He combines practical hands-on coding with product-focused thinking to ship reliable, auditable systems used by millions. Based in Stony Stratford, he brings pragmatic leadership and an appreciation for maintainable, standards-driven engineering honed across multiple government domains.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bishop Wordsworth's SchoolBachelor of Science (BSc) Web Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Web Science at University of Southampton
English, French
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Github Skills (14)
ruby10
ruby-rails10
rails10
api10
wp-api10
testing9
postgresql9
android9
image6
command-line-arguments6
javascript6
forloop6
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Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Feb 2017 - Jun 2021
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:96 reviews, 511 commits, 449 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily worked on improving the `whitehall` backend functionality, focusing on updating dependencies and publishing content. They updated the slimmer and included update types across multiple presenters to accommodate the changes in the publishing api. They made changes related to publishing finders with update type in put content, and included the update type in all put content requests to the publishing API.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
thomasleese/will-there-be-space
Oct 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 84 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
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