
Tom Eldridge developed and maintained the NHSDigital/eligibility-signposting-api over six months, delivering features that improved deployment reliability, data security, and rule processing accuracy. He engineered Terraform-based infrastructure provisioning, automated CI/CD pipelines, and IAM policies to support secure, auditable deployments across multiple environments. Using Python, Bash, and Terraform, Tom implemented cohort-specific rule evaluation, manual data upload tooling for S3 and DynamoDB, and robust KMS encryption for external write roles. His work modernized deployment workflows, enhanced audit capabilities, and ensured compliance with data protection standards, demonstrating a strong grasp of backend development, infrastructure as code, and cloud security best practices.

September 2025 monthly summary for NHSDigital/eligibility-signposting-api focusing on CI/CD modernization and external data access/audit enhancements. The work delivered faster, safer deployments and stronger audit capabilities for external integrations, with measurable improvements in reliability, security, and release velocity.
September 2025 monthly summary for NHSDigital/eligibility-signposting-api focusing on CI/CD modernization and external data access/audit enhancements. The work delivered faster, safer deployments and stronger audit capabilities for external integrations, with measurable improvements in reliability, security, and release velocity.
Concise monthly summary for 2025-08 focusing on NHSDigital/eligibility-signposting-api. Delivered enhancements to rule evaluation logic to prioritize cohort-specific rules over general rules, plus a major CI/CD workflow redesign and deployment documentation updates. These changes improved rule accuracy, deployment reliability, and release visibility across environments (test/preprod/prod).
Concise monthly summary for 2025-08 focusing on NHSDigital/eligibility-signposting-api. Delivered enhancements to rule evaluation logic to prioritize cohort-specific rules over general rules, plus a major CI/CD workflow redesign and deployment documentation updates. These changes improved rule accuracy, deployment reliability, and release visibility across environments (test/preprod/prod).
Monthly summary for 2025-07: Key feature delivered — secure DynamoDB encryption policy for external write role in NHSDigital/eligibility-signposting-api. Implemented an IAM policy granting KMS encrypt/decrypt/generateDataKey permissions to the external write role for the DynamoDB table's KMS key, enabling secure encryption operations for writes. Commit: 295bcdfd88033fb8e4a0952b00df0ae32111eb91. Impact: strengthens data protection, supports compliance (data-at-rest encryption for external writes), and reduces risk of misconfigurations in secure write paths. Technologies/skills demonstrated: AWS IAM, AWS KMS, DynamoDB, policy as code, security governance.
Monthly summary for 2025-07: Key feature delivered — secure DynamoDB encryption policy for external write role in NHSDigital/eligibility-signposting-api. Implemented an IAM policy granting KMS encrypt/decrypt/generateDataKey permissions to the external write role for the DynamoDB table's KMS key, enabling secure encryption operations for writes. Commit: 295bcdfd88033fb8e4a0952b00df0ae32111eb91. Impact: strengthens data protection, supports compliance (data-at-rest encryption for external writes), and reduces risk of misconfigurations in secure write paths. Technologies/skills demonstrated: AWS IAM, AWS KMS, DynamoDB, policy as code, security governance.
June 2025 focused on strengthening deployment reliability, expanding data management tooling, and enabling API-driven guidance in the Eligibility Signposting API. Key investments include robust CI/CD workflow and IAM permissions, manual data upload tooling for S3 and DynamoDB, dynamic release versioning in CI/CD, and Action R rules support for the API. These changes reduce deployment risk, improve data integrity, accelerate releases, and provide automated, actionable insights for downstream clients.
June 2025 focused on strengthening deployment reliability, expanding data management tooling, and enabling API-driven guidance in the Eligibility Signposting API. Key investments include robust CI/CD workflow and IAM permissions, manual data upload tooling for S3 and DynamoDB, dynamic release versioning in CI/CD, and Action R rules support for the API. These changes reduce deployment risk, improve data integrity, accelerate releases, and provide automated, actionable insights for downstream clients.
May 2025 for NHSDigital/eligibility-signposting-api focused on establishing reliable infrastructure, accelerating releases, and hardening runtime security. Key outcomes include a Terraform-based S3 provisioning framework with environment scaffolding and permissions, an integrated Lambda download step aligned with the workflow, and a strengthened CI/CD pipeline with semantic versioning and deployment automation. Additional improvements covered runtime setup, IAM/KMS permissions, dynamic environment/workspace alignment, and documentation enhancements to improve maintainability and prevent inadvertent dev releases. These changes collectively reduce risk, speed up secure deliveries, and improve parity across environments.
May 2025 for NHSDigital/eligibility-signposting-api focused on establishing reliable infrastructure, accelerating releases, and hardening runtime security. Key outcomes include a Terraform-based S3 provisioning framework with environment scaffolding and permissions, an integrated Lambda download step aligned with the workflow, and a strengthened CI/CD pipeline with semantic versioning and deployment automation. Additional improvements covered runtime setup, IAM/KMS permissions, dynamic environment/workspace alignment, and documentation enhancements to improve maintainability and prevent inadvertent dev releases. These changes collectively reduce risk, speed up secure deliveries, and improve parity across environments.
Month: 2025-03. In NHSDigital/eligibility-signposting-api, delivered a documentation-focused feature addressing Yanai platform conflicts. No major bugs fixed this month. Impact: clearer guidance for developers integrating with Yanai, reduced risk of build issues, and improved maintainability of docs and terminology. Demonstrated skills in documentation best practices, Markdown updates, vocabulary management, and commit-level traceability.
Month: 2025-03. In NHSDigital/eligibility-signposting-api, delivered a documentation-focused feature addressing Yanai platform conflicts. No major bugs fixed this month. Impact: clearer guidance for developers integrating with Yanai, reduced risk of build issues, and improved maintainability of docs and terminology. Demonstrated skills in documentation best practices, Markdown updates, vocabulary management, and commit-level traceability.
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