March 2026 monthly summary for developer work focused on delivering a production-grade Prison Curious2 workflow and release management within the analytical platform.

Month: 2026-01 — Summary of work for ministryofjustice/analytical-platform-airflow. Focused on upgrading the NOMIS extraction workflow and achieving production-ready deployment, delivering reliability improvements and clear, versioned change history that supports downstream analytics.

December 2025: Delivered a robust set of NOMIS/NOMIS-architecture updates in ministryofjustice/analytical-platform-airflow, prioritizing reliability, data integrity, and faster time-to-value. Key work included fixing production/dev environment duplication, a sustained NOMIS release cadence (v0.42 through v0.59) with workflow improvements, a major refactor to a single NOMIS task, and reintroduction of primary key tables. Added safety and performance enhancements such as disabling risky delete tasks, reducing fetch sizes, and stabilizing DAG behavior with a DAG.py fix and preprod path updates. These changes reduce production risk, improve data quality, and accelerate feature delivery to business users.

November 2025 delivered a cohesive set of pipeline enhancements for the ministryofjustice/analytical-platform-airflow, with a strong focus on Nomis version lifecycle management, robust secrets handling, and testing improvements. The work established a consistent release cadence by bumping Nomis through v0.10–v0.39, hardened secret propagation across DAGs (including connect_string integration and db_host/db_service fields), updated image references for extraction DAGs, and expanded testing coverage, resulting in more reliable deployments and faster iteration.

Concise monthly summary for 2025-10 focusing on delivering a scalable NOMIS data extraction capability and improved DAG maintainability for analytics platform.

June 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/analytical-platform: Delivered the DPR Development Data Sharing Infrastructure using Terraform to enable external data sharing for the DPR development environment. This includes data locations, shared databases, AWS provider configuration, and access roles to securely share DPR data with other services. No major bugs reported this month. Impact: accelerates cross-team data collaboration while maintaining security and auditability. Technologies demonstrated: Terraform, AWS IAM/Roles, infrastructure as code, secure data sharing patterns.

May 2025: Delivered governance and readiness improvements for data lake services in ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments. Key outcomes include Glue service readiness in preproduction (wildcard entry for Glue in preprod config and read-only IAM access to Glue table versions) and a Lake Formation tag typo fix in Terraform. Changes implemented via commits ca83f75b03f26a6ae6a368ac91da20c08547932f and 7338bbb1fd70d95ef055b0ffa72198fbdef51d3c; Lake Formation typo fix via 99ebf8de27c259eb1afedce2c67179fa5fd23453.

April 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments focusing on notable feature delivery, bug fixes, and business impact. Delivered governance-focused data access controls using Lake Formation LF-Tags and robust permission configurations to enable secure data API usage while reducing risk of misconfigurations.