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Jimbali

Over ten months, contributed to Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office by delivering 33 features and resolving 8 bugs, focusing on end-to-end enhancements for appeals, hearings, and enforcement workflows. Developed and optimized APIs, integrated audit trails, and improved database models using TypeScript, Node.js, and SQL. Implemented feature flags, automated notifications, and robust testing with Jest and Cypress to ensure reliability and maintainability. Enhanced user experience through refined navigation, UI improvements, and streamlined case management. Strengthened deployment processes with infrastructure as code and continuous integration. The work emphasized data integrity, operational efficiency, and scalable architecture, supporting both business requirements and future automation needs.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

80%Features

Repository Contributions

108Total
Bugs
8
Commits
108
Features
33
Lines of code
56,858
Activity Months10

Work History

February 2026

12 Commits • 3 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026 (Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office): Delivered major UX and API enhancements to the enforcement appeals workflow, automated notifications across valid/invalid/incomplete notices, and URL/template fixes. These changes improve user experience, accelerate case processing, and strengthen stakeholder communications with appellants and Local Planning Authorities.

January 2026

17 Commits • 7 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026: Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office delivered a comprehensive set of enforcement appeals enhancements across web and API layers, including UX improvements, timetable management, notification improvements, reference visibility, search/cancel flows, and data-model cleanup. These changes accelerate case handling, improve staff efficiency, and provide clearer enforcement references, while reducing technical debt through data-model simplifications and updated documentation.

December 2025

13 Commits • 2 Features

Dec 1, 2025

December 2025: End-to-end Rule 6 party management delivered in Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office, enabling creation/listing/updating/deleting Rule 6 parties, management UI, broadcasting changes to external systems, and handling associated documents and Proofs of Evidence (PoEs). LPAQ API enhancements added a folders field to GET LPAQ to support document links on the validate LPAQ page. Tests stabilized by fixing representation-mapping naming, and project hygiene improved through NPM cleanup. Overall, these changes reduce manual tasks, improve data integrity, and accelerate appeals processing through stronger API/frontend integration, reliable test coverage, and cleaner codebase.

November 2025

13 Commits • 4 Features

Nov 1, 2025

November 2025 – Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office: Delivered four core capabilities across inquiry lifecycle, broadcasting API, and party flows, underpinned by stronger tooling, tests, and deployment hygiene. The work enhances case processing speed, data integrity, and deployment reliability while reducing risk in release cycles.

October 2025

10 Commits • 3 Features

Oct 1, 2025

October 2025 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office: Delivered key business-value through feature delivery, safer rollout, and improved maintainability. Highlights include user-facing enhancements to Appeals timeline and inquiry navigation, expansion of communications, controlled testing for post-MVP hearing functionality, and strengthened tooling and documentation to support ongoing maintenance.

September 2025

20 Commits • 4 Features

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025: Implemented a more complete hearing workflow post-MVP, expanded API-driven planning supports, and hardened the UI for a smoother reviewer experience. Delivered the hearing initiation/scheduling flow with feature flags, new hearing UI pages and start-case orchestration, plus timetable calculation and email previews to streamline communications. Brought LPA data exposure and due-date fields in line with planning appeals needs. Enabled Appellant PoE incomplete status handling. Improved navigation, back-link consistency, and reliability with a targeted status rollback fix and better email preview error messaging. These changes collectively improve business value by enabling faster, error-free hearing setup, better planning data, and a more predictable reviewer experience.

August 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025 performance summary for Planning-Inspectorate/data-model: Implemented data-model enhancements to capture key due dates for S78 appeals. Added optional fields to AppealS78Case (statementOfCommonGroundDueDate and planningObligationDueDate), updated data model definitions and documentation, improving data completeness, reporting accuracy, and SLA visibility. No major bugs fixed this month; focus was on schema evolution and documentation. This work enables precise tracking of due dates for planning obligations and statements of common ground, supporting better case management and compliance.

July 2025

11 Commits • 4 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office: Delivered UX, data, and API enhancements across hearing setup, appeals communication, and API surfaces, plus test reliability improvements. Key features include back link navigation and URL context preservation in hearing setup, appeals communication and timetable enhancements, API performance optimizations, and development type centralization. Major bugs fixed include end-to-end test terminology alignment and hearing address removal state resets. Overall impact: improved user navigation and data integrity in hearing setup, faster and more reliable API GET /appeals with accurate filter data, consistent development type keys across web/API, and more robust end-to-end tests. Technologies demonstrated: web frontend UX improvements, API performance tuning, shared package design, state machine adjustments, and E2E test maintenance.

June 2025

7 Commits • 3 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025: Delivered end-to-end S78 appeals support across API, planning obligations, and data import, along with enhanced hearing event traceability and user context, boosted by test stability improvements. Implemented planningObligationDueDate in appeal timetables, improved importer/mapping for S78 data, and added web UI improvements for editing timetables. Introduced audit trails and email notifications for hearing events, and displayed linked appeals in HAS appellant cases. Stabilized CI by adjusting snapshot management to reduce noise between test runs. These changes improve data integrity, process compliance, and operational efficiency for appeals processing, while reducing CI fragility and enabling faster decision support.

May 2025

4 Commits • 2 Features

May 1, 2025

In May 2025, Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office delivered end-to-end enhancements to hearing management and timetable handling, strengthening scheduling integrity and automation readiness. Key features include a new hearing cancellation workflow and updated timetable fields, backed by schema changes, API validators, and tests. A targeted UI fix improved navigation by ensuring the 'keep hearing' link remains available on the cancel page. These efforts reduce manual processing, improve data consistency across hearing/inquiry types, and position the team for future automation and scale.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness92.2%
Maintainability88.6%
Architecture88.2%
Performance86.2%
AI Usage23.8%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

BashCSSHCLHTMLJavaScriptMarkdownNoneNunjucksPythonSQL

Technical Skills

API DevelopmentAPI IntegrationAPI OptimizationAPI developmentAPI integrationAudit TrailsBack End DevelopmentBack end developmentBackend DevelopmentBackend developmentCSSCode StandardizationConfiguration ManagementContinuous IntegrationCypress

Repositories Contributed To

2 repos

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Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office

May 2025 Feb 2026
9 Months active

Languages Used

JavaScriptNunjucksSQLTypeScriptCSSHTMLHCLenv

Technical Skills

API DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentDatabase ManagementExpress.jsFront End DevelopmentFull stack development

Planning-Inspectorate/data-model

Aug 2025 Aug 2025
1 Month active

Languages Used

PythonTypeScript

Technical Skills

API DevelopmentData ModelingSchema Definition