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Andrew L

Worked extensively on the ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-environments repository, delivering features that modernized cloud infrastructure, improved security, and streamlined deployment workflows. Leveraged Terraform, Kubernetes, and YAML to implement environment-specific RBAC, automate PostgreSQL upgrades, and enable secure database connectivity using IRSA-based IAM roles. Addressed technical debt by decommissioning legacy namespaces and cleaning up unused components, which reduced maintenance overhead and improved platform governance. Enhanced CI/CD reliability by refining pipeline controls and optimizing namespace processing. Focused on network security and configuration management, the work enabled safer releases, reduced operational risk, and ensured compliance across development, preproduction, and production environments through disciplined, auditable changes.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

82%Features

Repository Contributions

28Total
Bugs
3
Commits
28
Features
14
Lines of code
1,567
Activity Months8

Work History

March 2026

2 Commits • 1 Features

Mar 1, 2026

March 2026 focused on reducing technical debt in the cloud-platform-environments repo by cleaning up legacy Kubernetes resources and a PoC component, aligning with the new ppud automation API service and simplifying ongoing maintenance.

February 2026

3 Commits • 2 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026: Delivered MRD infrastructure features focused on security isolation, deployment governance, and database readiness. Implemented IRSA-based IAM roles for RDS access from MRD production pods and added a dedicated MRD production namespace to enable selective deployment and process skipping, strengthening production isolation and governance. Prepared MRD for PostgreSQL 17 upgrade with readiness flag and deployment updates to ensure a safe, gradual migration and to unlock performance and security improvements. These changes reduce blast radius, improve deployment control, and position MRD for faster, safer releases. Technologies demonstrated include IRSA, Kubernetes namespaces, and PostgreSQL upgrade readiness.

January 2026

8 Commits • 4 Features

Jan 1, 2026

Month: 2026-01 – Cloud platform environments; delivering database modernization, pipeline reliability, and performance optimizations with clear business value.

November 2025

2 Commits • 2 Features

Nov 1, 2025

November 2025 monthly summary: Delivered critical network-access enhancements to two UI repos to improve testing environments and security. Implemented Mod Platform TGW allow-list for test in the strengths-based needs assessments UI and introduced Mod Platform egress allow-list entries for test in the sentence plan UI. These changes remove blockers for CI/test runs, reduce risk of unintended access during testing, and align with security governance for network egress and ingress. Commits tracked for traceability: b3df35dcf212d5741087d7a7786cfc704f3fd5f8; af47b75d7407d6c567cc4039d0c6ef323939000e.

October 2025

2 Commits • 1 Features

Oct 1, 2025

October 2025 monthly summary for cloud platform environments focused on security maintenance, stability, and deployment automation for the Make Recall Decision (MRD) preproduction environment. Delivered a security-aligned database engine upgrade and restored automated CI/CD workflows to enhance deployment reliability and reduce manual steps in preprod.

September 2025

3 Commits • 2 Features

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025 performance summary focusing on feature delivery and environment lifecycle improvements across two repositories. Key outcomes include enabling external system connectivity (OASYS T2) for the strengths-based needs assessments API and retiring obsolete HMPPS One Plan environments to reduce operational overhead and risk. The work demonstrates strong platform governance, cloud-native tooling proficiency, and a clear delivery of business value.

July 2025

7 Commits • 2 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-environments. Delivered two priority items: environment-specific RBAC hardening and SBNA database connectivity, enabling safer development, production isolation, and platform modernization. Key outcomes include reduced blast radius through least-privilege access controls per environment, auditable RBAC changes across dev, preprod, and prod, and established network access from the modernization platform to the SBNA database via port 5432. Demonstrated IAM/RBAC governance, network security group configuration, and cross-team collaboration to evolve the platform with security and scalability in mind. Business value: improved security posture, safer CI/CD workflows, and readiness for data-layer integration across environments.

January 2025

1 Commits

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025 monthly summary highlighting business value and technical achievements for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform. Focused on data quality improvements to national infrastructure tagging. Delivered a targeted fix to ensure accurate tagging of HMPPS critical national infrastructure by aligning with critical-services-catalogue.xls, improving governance, incident routing, and audit readiness. All changes are tracked via a single, auditable commit in the repository.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness97.8%
Maintainability97.2%
Architecture97.2%
Performance97.2%
AI Usage20.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

HCLNonePythonTerraformYAMLyaml

Technical Skills

AWSCI/CDCloud ConfigurationCloud InfrastructureCloud Infrastructure ManagementCloud Platform ManagementConfiguration ManagementData ManagementDatabase ManagementDevOpsInfrastructure as CodeKubernetesKubernetes RBACNetwork ConfigurationNetwork Security

Repositories Contributed To

5 repos

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

ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-environments

Jul 2025 Mar 2026
6 Months active

Languages Used

HCLYAMLTerraformNone

Technical Skills

AWSDevOpsInfrastructure as CodeKubernetesKubernetes RBACNetworking

ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform

Jan 2025 Jan 2025
1 Month active

Languages Used

Python

Technical Skills

Data ManagementInfrastructure as Code

ministryofjustice/hmpps-strengths-based-needs-assessments-api

Sep 2025 Sep 2025
1 Month active

Languages Used

yaml

Technical Skills

Cloud ConfigurationDevOps

ministryofjustice/hmpps-strengths-based-needs-assessments-ui

Nov 2025 Nov 2025
1 Month active

Languages Used

YAML

Technical Skills

DevOpsInfrastructure as CodeNetwork Configuration

ministryofjustice/hmpps-sentence-plan-ui

Nov 2025 Nov 2025
1 Month active

Languages Used

YAML

Technical Skills

Configuration ManagementDevOpsNetwork Security