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Dom Belcher

Over 16 months, contributed to alphagov/pay-selfservice and related repositories by delivering features such as unified transaction management, payment link enhancements, and robust refund workflows. Focused on improving user experience and data integrity through backend and frontend development, leveraging JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js. Implemented advanced search, validation, and internationalization, while modernizing data models and refining UI components. Strengthened release quality with automated end-to-end and integration testing using Cypress, and maintained code health through refactoring and dependency management. Collaborated across services to enhance API design, enforce security, and streamline onboarding, resulting in more reliable, maintainable, and user-focused payment platforms.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

94%Features

Repository Contributions

82Total
Bugs
2
Commits
82
Features
34
Lines of code
36,903
Activity Months16

Work History

March 2026

3 Commits • 1 Features

Mar 1, 2026

March 2026: Delivered a unified Transactions experience across alphagov/pay-selfservice. Implemented a central Transactions page with cross-provider filtering, added a CSV export for transactions via a new controller, and enhanced path handling and link generation to support multi-provider/service views. These changes consolidate transaction visibility across providers, enable easier reporting and reconciliation, and demonstrate progress in cross-service architecture.

February 2026

9 Commits • 4 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026 (2026-02) Monthly Summary for alphagov/pay-selfservice and alphagov/pay-product-page. Focused on delivering business value through data-model modernization, improved search capabilities, and UI enhancements, alongside strengthening test infrastructure. Key outcomes include modernized transaction handling, richer search and filtering, clearer transaction detail presentation, and more reliable testing—driving data quality, user experience, and product confidence across teams.

December 2025

4 Commits • 2 Features

Dec 1, 2025

December 2025 performance summary for pay-ci and pay-selfservice: Stabilized production readiness and expanded safe experimentation in end-to-end tests. Delivered targeted features and flag management across two repos, improving test coverage, release confidence, and business value associated with payment workflows. Cross-repo collaboration reduced risk by removing stale feature flags and cleaning test configurations, enabling faster, safer releases.

November 2025

13 Commits • 7 Features

Nov 1, 2025

November 2025 concise monthly summary focusing on business value and technical achievements across pay-selfservice and pay-adminusers. Highlights include feature-rich refunds improvements, sandbox testing improvements, PSP onboarding enhancements, a consolidated feature flag overhaul, UI/UX refinements, and API enhancements, with ongoing codebase cleanup to boost maintainability and developer velocity.

October 2025

13 Commits • 5 Features

Oct 1, 2025

Concise monthly summary for alphagov/pay-selfservice (Month: 2025-10). Focused on delivering business value through end-to-end refund capability, a refreshed Transactions experience, UX improvements, and foundational TypeScript migrations to improve maintainability and reduce tech debt.

September 2025

5 Commits • 1 Features

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025 — Alphagov/pay-selfservice: Payment Links enhancements delivered with data integrity, internationalization, and UI polish. Implemented reference data on creation, strengthened creation flow validation, added Welsh service name internationalization, and refined UI/templates for clearer presentation of payment links. Expanded test coverage and fixed UI issues to improve reliability and accessibility.

August 2025

3 Commits • 1 Features

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025 monthly summary for pay-selfservice focusing on delivering customer-facing functionality and stabilizing the test base. The month centered on shipping a prototype link creation flow with validation and session-backed confirmation, while also strengthening release quality through a TypeScript-enabled test suite and improved test isolation.

July 2025

7 Commits • 2 Features

Jul 1, 2025

Monthly summary for 2025-07 focusing on Alphagov/pay-selfservice: delivered end-to-end tests for Worldpay switch flow and completed service-layout refactor with TypeScript migration. These efforts strengthen go-to-market readiness by reducing production risk, improving maintainability, and enabling faster iterations across the payment self-service interface.

June 2025

3 Commits • 3 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 monthly summary focused on delivering user-facing improvements, strengthening release quality, and enforcing API correctness across three services. Key outcomes include improved roadmap text readability for PCI messaging, automated end-to-end testing coverage in CI for the selfservice products feature, and stricter token creation validation with updated API contracts.

May 2025

3 Commits • 2 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 monthly summary focused on delivering tangible business value through token governance improvements and admin API security/compliance enhancements, with automation to keep API docs in sync. Delivered cross-repo features across pay-publicauth and pay-adminusers, enabling precise token tracking, improved security posture, and reduced developer toil.

April 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025 monthly summary for alphagov/pay-frontend. Focused on essential dependency maintenance to keep metrics tooling current and compatible. Upgrading pay-js-metrics improves data accuracy, reliability, and maintainability of frontend analytics, reducing risk of deprecated dependencies. Changes tracked under PP-14024. CI stability preserved; no regression-related issues observed.

March 2025

3 Commits • 1 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025 monthly summary for alphagov/pay-product-page: Delivered consistent ERB template formatting to improve readability and maintainability across the repository. The changes are purely stylistic with no impact on functionality, implemented via an automated prettifier across the templates. This work reduces future maintenance costs and sets a standard for templating practices across the codebase.

February 2025

6 Commits • 2 Features

Feb 1, 2025

Feb 2025 monthly summary for alphagov/pay-selfservice: Delivered user-focused Worldpay 3DS Flex credentials display and configuration in Worldpay service settings, plus a new webhook update flow. Work emphasized feature delivery, UI improvements, testing, and backend design to improve reliability and maintainability. No explicit bug fixes were reported this month; emphasis was on delivering value and stabilizing related flows through automated tests and refactoring.

January 2025

1 Commits

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025 (alphagov/pay-product-page) — Maintenance-focused month delivering code quality improvements with no user-facing changes. Completed an HTML formatting cleanup in the GOV.UK Pay page template (using-govuk-pay.html.erb), standardizing line breaks and indentation to improve readability and future maintainability. No features added or bugs affecting functionality; this work reduces review noise and prepares the codebase for upcoming features.

December 2024

1 Commits • 1 Features

Dec 1, 2024

December 2024 performance summary for alphagov/pay-connector. Focused on expanding Worldpay credential flexibility and strengthening validation pathways. No major regressions observed; feature delivery aimed at reducing merchant onboarding friction and enabling more flexible Worldpay integrations.

November 2024

7 Commits • 1 Features

Nov 1, 2024

November 2024: Delivered Organisation Details Management in Simplified Account Settings for alphagov/pay-selfservice, enabling viewing and editing of organisation name, address, telephone, and website within simplified account settings. Ensured payment pages display organisation details and implemented UI routes, controllers, and views with access control for live environments and content formatting. Also introduced form validation, post handling, and supporting tests to ensure reliability and governance. Impact: improved data accuracy, governance, and user experience on the self-service platform; Tech: Rails controllers/views, form handling, validation, and end-to-end tests.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness92.6%
Maintainability89.0%
Architecture87.0%
Performance84.2%
AI Usage24.2%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

CSSERBHTMLJSONJavaJavaScriptNunjucksSQLTypeScriptYAML

Technical Skills

API DesignAPI DevelopmentAPI IntegrationAPI Key ManagementAPI developmentBack End DevelopmentBack-end DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentCI/CDCode CleanupCode ConversionCode FormattingCode OrganizationCode QualityContinuous Integration

Repositories Contributed To

7 repos

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

alphagov/pay-selfservice

Nov 2024 Mar 2026
10 Months active

Languages Used

HTMLJavaScriptNunjucksTypeScriptCSS

Technical Skills

Backend DevelopmentController TestingCypress TestingExpress.jsForm ValidationFront End Development

alphagov/pay-product-page

Jan 2025 Feb 2026
4 Months active

Languages Used

ERBHTMLerb

Technical Skills

Front-end DevelopmentCode FormattingFront End DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentHTMLdocumentation

alphagov/pay-publicauth

May 2025 Jun 2025
2 Months active

Languages Used

JavaSQLYAML

Technical Skills

API DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentDatabase ManagementSchema DesignAPI DesignIntegration Testing

alphagov/pay-adminusers

May 2025 Nov 2025
2 Months active

Languages Used

YAMLJava

Technical Skills

API DevelopmentSpecification ManagementJavaOpenAPI Specification

alphagov/pay-ci

Jun 2025 Dec 2025
2 Months active

Languages Used

pklenv

Technical Skills

CI/CDEnd-to-End TestingContinuous IntegrationDevOpsTesting

alphagov/pay-connector

Dec 2024 Dec 2024
1 Month active

Languages Used

JavaYAML

Technical Skills

API DesignBackend DevelopmentValidation Logic

alphagov/pay-frontend

Apr 2025 Apr 2025
1 Month active

Languages Used

JSON

Technical Skills

Dependency Management