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Dean Hasley

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Dean Hasley

Over 21 months, contributed to Planning-Inspectorate repositories by delivering 71 features and resolving 18 bugs, focusing on robust API development, data management, and user-centric workflows. Built and enhanced submission journeys, notification systems, and geospatial data features across back-office and applications-service, using TypeScript, JavaScript, and Node.js. Integrated AI-driven document redaction, improved accessibility, and implemented infrastructure-as-code with Terraform for scalable deployments. Prioritized test coverage, code maintainability, and cross-environment configuration, ensuring reliable releases. The work emphasized seamless integration between front-end and back-end systems, enabling efficient data flows, secure document handling, and improved user experience for both internal teams and external stakeholders.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

80%Features

Repository Contributions

194Total
Bugs
18
Commits
194
Features
71
Lines of code
257,741
Activity Months21

Work History

June 2026

1 Commits • 1 Features

Jun 1, 2026

June 2026 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/applications-service. Key feature delivered: a project-specific geospatial boundary file download, enabling users to download per-project boundary files via a web download link. Major bugs fixed: none reported/fixed in this repository this month. Overall impact: significantly improved data accessibility and workflow efficiency by allowing direct access to geospatial boundary data for individual projects, enabling faster analysis, easier sharing with stakeholders, and smoother downstream processing. Technologies/skills demonstrated: frontend web feature development, integration with geospatial data access patterns, clear commit messaging and ticket mapping (idas-50), and cross-functional collaboration implied between frontend and data services.

May 2026

6 Commits • 4 Features

May 1, 2026

May 2026 focused on strengthening GIS data capabilities and delivering end-to-end GeoJSON workflows across back-office, infrastructure-environments, and applications-service. Delivered ZIP-based GIS data ingestion, robust master GeoJSON generation from boundary documents, centralized GeoJSON configuration, and map-based visualization with download of project boundaries, enabling faster map rendering, improved data integrity, and export readiness for stakeholders.

April 2026

2 Commits • 1 Features

Apr 1, 2026

April 2026 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/applications-service: Implemented front-end enhancements to the registration flow and submission page to reduce duplicate submissions and improve accessibility. The changes increase reliability of submissions, reduce user friction, and improve screen reader usability, contributing to better outcomes and compliance. Technologies/skills demonstrated include front-end web development, refactoring, and accessibility-focused UI improvements.

March 2026

10 Commits • 2 Features

Mar 1, 2026

March 2026 performance summary for Planning-Inspectorate teams. Delivered cross-repo AI document redaction workflow enhancements and environment-wide redaction system integration, enabling more automated, compliant, and auditable redaction processes in back-office and infrastructure environments. The changes improve privacy safeguards, deployment parity, and operational efficiency through event-driven architecture and feature flag governance.

February 2026

8 Commits • 3 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026: Delivered security-focused features that enhance data protection, deployment configurability, and observability across three repositories. Key achievements include AI Document Redaction rollout with UI exposure, environment-flag driven control, and API validation improvements; firewall policy hardening for Azure CDN with referer filtering and PHP-injection logging; and deployment-time configurability for redaction via feature flags and environment variables.

January 2026

10 Commits • 6 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 performance summary for Planning-Inspectorate: Delivered core features in back-office and applications-service, improved validation and publishing flow, enhanced user journeys, and initiated maintenance to reduce technical debt. Key outcomes include: UI enhancements for pre-application Section 46 dates, robust project-type validation and publish flow for generating stations, post-decision recommendations on overview pages, registration journey navigation improvements via middleware, and ongoing service refactor for streamlined data retrieval and maintainability.

December 2025

4 Commits • 2 Features

Dec 1, 2025

December 2025 monthly summary focusing on developer contributions across Planning-Inspectorate back-office and applications-service. Delivered a user-facing feature to capture project type in case creation, enhanced data exports, and strengthened data mapping correctness with targeted test updates.

November 2025

5 Commits • 3 Features

Nov 1, 2025

November 2025 focused on delivering core API capabilities, strengthening data integrity, and improving accessibility compliance across back-office and applications service. Delivered the Invoices API with CRUD endpoints, migrations, and validation; enhanced Application Details API with new fields and improved mapping/validation; and refined the Accessibility Statement to align with WCAG 2.2. QA-driven corrections were applied to ensure clarity and reliability. These efforts enable safer invoicing workflows, more accurate application data handling, and clearer, more compliant user-facing content, accelerating feature delivery and reducing support overhead.

October 2025

7 Commits • 2 Features

Oct 1, 2025

October 2025 summary for Planning-Inspectorate/back-office focusing on delivering business value through API improvements and UX refinements, with targeted code optimizations and test coverage to improve reliability and maintainability.

September 2025

6 Commits • 3 Features

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/back-office: Delivered reliability and UX improvements across API, web, and functions, enabling better downloads, consistent UI, and improved data discoverability. The work reduced user friction, enhanced observability, and supported faster issue diagnosis, contributing to higher productivity and data accuracy.

August 2025

6 Commits • 2 Features

Aug 1, 2025

In August 2025, delivered key user-facing features and reliability fixes for the Planning-Inspectorate/applications-service, improving document accessibility, navigation reliability, and API/documentation quality. These changes reduce friction for end users and accelerate cross-team onboarding.

July 2025

5 Commits • 4 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025 monthly performance summary for Planning-Inspectorate/applications-service focused on delivering targeted API and data integrity improvements that drive data accuracy, better filtering, and structured responses. Key enhancements include case-filtered representation retrieval, ID-level case-aware filtering for NI cases, a new Document Link API with a dedicated route and tests, and returning document paths as JSON to align with structured API responses and updated OpenAPI specs. A seeding utility data integrity fix was implemented to ensure correct linking of advice records and prevent duplicates, improving seed reliability and data quality. Overall, these efforts reduce user confusion, enable more reliable downstream integrations, and establish a stronger foundation for NI case handling and future enhancements.

June 2025

4 Commits • 2 Features

Jun 1, 2025

Performance-focused monthly summary for 2025-06 covering Planning-Inspectorate/applications-service. Key features delivered include UI polish and flow improvements to drive cleaner UX and prevent duplicate registrations. Major changes: - Chevron card visual enhancements: dynamic heading sizing and a no-border class for full-width sections, improving visual consistency across pages. (commit 0883bfd463961d01d123df51598688b7365321ec) - Already-registered flow: new route and logic to prevent duplicates across applicant types (applicant, organisation, agent); updates to view constants, a generic journey complete template, and cross-type configuration. (commits 104ff6e9d8cbb1bb7f5e52454265551281aa456c, 5417dd75fa99ecae6f819279ef44f12f24e0d9e0) - Registration complete page back button removal: backLinkUrl set to null to remove back navigation on the final page, delivering a cleaner user experience. (commit 599430cbdf472b22de0bb9b3c329c9d875b6cf18) Quality and impact: - Snapshot and test updates accompanying the new already-registered flow to ensure reliability. - Business impact: reduces user friction at critical milestones, prevents duplicate registrations, and improves UI consistency across the journey. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Front-end UI polish and refactoring, routing/configuration for multi-type user journeys, CSS/class-based styling, and test maintenance.

May 2025

3 Commits • 2 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 performance snapshot focusing on robust test reliability, accessibility enhancements, and improved search UX across two Planning-Inspectorate repositories. Delivered two key features in applications-service and a targeted bug fix in appeal-planning-decision, aligning with business goals of easier applicant interaction, better compliance with accessibility standards, and more stable test suites.

April 2025

21 Commits • 10 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision focusing on delivering user-focused improvements to the appeal flow, robust notification templates, and code quality gains that drive business value. Significant enhancements include navigation and login-redirect improvements, expanded email templates for various appeal stages, and targeted QA/maintenance work.

March 2025

7 Commits • 3 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025 was focused on improving submission flows, enhancing data capture for policy-related decisions, and ensuring reliable communications. Across the Planning-Inspectorate repos, we delivered clear user-facing copy updates, S20 appeal navigation, LPAQ data model enhancements, and critical notification template fixes. These changes improve user clarity, reduce support overhead, and strengthen readiness for policy-driven decisions.

February 2025

29 Commits • 6 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 highlights for Planning-Inspectorate repositories focused on delivering user-centric submission journeys, strengthening back-office integrations, and improving data integrity and test coverage. Key features delivered and ongoing improvements across two repositories: Key features delivered - A2-2055 Representation mapping and submission journey enhancements (Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision): established initial representation mapping, updated journey types to include submission docs, aligned data model for docs, simplified formatter usage, added tests for representation formatter, corrected error messages for failing submissions, submit endpoint tests, and refactors. - Back-office integrations (A2-2060, A2-2062, A2-2064): enable sending LPA final comments to back office, send LPA statements to back office, and LPA proof evidence submission to back office, with corresponding tests and dashboard integration. - PDF generation for S78 (A2-2073): enabled PDF generation with log removal and test fixes. - Infrastructure improvement: added environment variable to route representation submissions in appeals (Planning-Inspectorate/infrastructure-environments). Major bugs fixed - A2-2183: remove an unnecessary question from the S20 appeal form journey. - S20 continue submission: fixed continue flow and aligned appeal type on the dashboard. - Data integrity fixes: A2-1994 (convert saved answer to number), A2-1996 (correct ownsAllLand content), and A2-2272 (fix duplicate fieldname for back link). - Statement journey entry and dashboard integration fixes via A2-2064 work and related tests. Overall impact and accomplishments - Significantly improved submission reliability and user experience through enhanced representation mapping, journey updates, and robust endpoint/test coverage. - Strengthened back-office processing and data flow, enabling faster processing of LPA final comments, statements, and proof evidence. - Improved dashboard accuracy and journey consistency, reducing friction and confusion for users and agents. - Improved maintainability through refactors that reduce duplication and streamline formatter usage. Technologies/skills demonstrated - Data modeling and journey design alignment, refactoring to remove duplication, comprehensive end-to-end testing, and robust error handling. - Back-office integration patterns and dashboard-coordinated flows. - Environment configuration for routing and deployment readiness, plus PDF generation tooling.

January 2025

20 Commits • 5 Features

Jan 1, 2025

Concise monthly summary for 2025-01 focusing on key features delivered, major bugs fixed, and overall impact across Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision. Highlights include access control and navigation improvements, new S20 journey support, data integrity fixes, and enhancements to document handling and statement journey flow.

December 2024

18 Commits • 4 Features

Dec 1, 2024

December 2024 performance summary for Planning-Inspectorate projects: delivered key user-facing features for appeal submissions, enhanced API capabilities with v2 updates and data cleanup, and a robust deadline banners/reminders system, alongside infrastructure updates for notification templates. implemented comprehensive tests, refactoring, and UI copy alignment; improved navigation reliability for zip downloads; and prepared infra for consistent customer communications.

November 2024

16 Commits • 2 Features

Nov 1, 2024

Concise, business-focused monthly summary for November 2024 highlighting end-to-end delivery of the LPA POE journey, addition of notification templates, and reliability improvements across the Planning-Inspectorate repos. Emphasizes business value through streamlined POE submissions, improved communications, and stronger test coverage.

October 2024

6 Commits • 4 Features

Oct 1, 2024

October 2024 delivered end-to-end Proof of Evidence (POE) submission capabilities for the Planning-Inspectorate, strengthened data model for LPA POEs, and UX improvements for error content, while advancing infrastructure to support notification templates across environments. The work integrated API design, frontend flows, data migrations, and multi-environment configuration to enable reliable case intake, improved notification reach, and scalable POE management.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness91.2%
Maintainability89.2%
Architecture87.2%
Performance87.0%
AI Usage24.6%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

DSLHCLHTMLJSONJavaScriptMarkdownNunjucksPrismaSCSSSQL

Technical Skills

AI integrationAPI DesignAPI DevelopmentAPI IntegrationAPI TestingAPI developmentAPI integrationAccessibilityAuthentication (OAuth2)AzureAzure FunctionsBack End DevelopmentBack end developmentBack-end DevelopmentBackend Development

Repositories Contributed To

4 repos

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

Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision

Oct 2024 May 2025
8 Months active

Languages Used

JavaScriptNunjucksSQLTypeScriptYAMLMarkdown

Technical Skills

API DevelopmentAPI IntegrationBackend DevelopmentDatabase DesignEmail NotificationsExpress.js

Planning-Inspectorate/back-office

Sep 2025 May 2026
8 Months active

Languages Used

JavaScripthtmljavascriptHTMLNunjucksTypeScriptJSON

Technical Skills

API DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentDatabase ManagementDatabase Query OptimizationError HandlingFile Handling

Planning-Inspectorate/applications-service

May 2025 Jun 2026
11 Months active

Languages Used

HTMLJavaScriptNunjucksSCSSDSLYAMLPrismaSQL

Technical Skills

AccessibilityFront End DevelopmentHTMLLocalizationBack End DevelopmentBackend Development

Planning-Inspectorate/infrastructure-environments

Oct 2024 May 2026
8 Months active

Languages Used

HCLMarkdownTerraform

Technical Skills

Infrastructure as CodeTerraformDevOpsDocumentationEnvironment ConfigurationConfiguration Management