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Kate Reidy

Over four months, contributed to the ministryofjustice/bichard7-next-shared-infrastructure repository by delivering features that enhanced cloud infrastructure security, deployment reliability, and automation. Focused on AWS and Terraform, implemented granular IAM permissions for Athena and Glue, upgraded Aurora Postgres versions, and modernized CI/CD tooling to ensure safer, auditable deployments. Improved infrastructure resilience by consolidating CloudTrail resources and safeguarding Lambda log data, while streamlining Terraform key management and deployment scripts to reduce manual intervention and configuration drift. Demonstrated expertise in infrastructure as code, Bash scripting, and cloud governance, consistently prioritizing maintainability, risk reduction, and operational efficiency across evolving cloud environments.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

75%Features

Repository Contributions

21Total
Bugs
2
Commits
21
Features
6
Lines of code
19,788
Activity Months4

Work History

July 2026

2 Commits • 2 Features

Jul 1, 2026

In July 2026, delivered automation improvements in ministryofjustice/bichard7-next-shared-infrastructure that tighten Terraform key management for shared account deployments and streamline the deployment pipeline. These changes reduce deployment failures due to missing keys, improve environment parity, and decrease manual intervention, delivering business value through faster, more reliable infrastructure provisioning.

June 2026

11 Commits • 2 Features

Jun 1, 2026

June 2026 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/bichard7-next-shared-infrastructure focused on infrastructure resilience, deployment reliability, and governance improvements. Delivered two core features improving data integrity and deployment safety, and implemented tooling changes that streamline future changes while reducing risk across environments.

May 2026

1 Commits • 1 Features

May 1, 2026

May 2026 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/bichard7-next-shared-infrastructure: Delivered an Aurora Postgres upgrade to 15.15 across Terraform configurations, enabling latest database features and security improvements. No major bugs fixed this month. Impact: updated infrastructure reduces risk, improves security posture, and aligns with maintenance standards while enabling future-proofed operations. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Terraform infrastructure as code, AWS Aurora PostgreSQL management, commit-driven change management; ownership demonstrated through a targeted upgrade (commit 5015ffbe729ba98b66fd0de285e78977248632e9).

April 2026

7 Commits • 1 Features

Apr 1, 2026

April 2026 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/bichard7-next-shared-infrastructure: Delivered security and governance improvements for analytics infrastructure, focusing on granular IAM permissions for AWS Athena and Glue, plus essential policy/template fixes to ensure correct policy scope and reliable parsing. Key features delivered include expanded IAM permissions across Athena and Glue resources, enabling creation, retrieval, updating, tagging, querying, and deletion of workgroups, databases, tables, and tags to support scalable analytics. Major bugs fixed include correcting a missing IAM policy Resource specifier to ensure actions apply to all resources and fixing JSON template comma placement to prevent parsing errors. Overall impact: stronger security posture, reduced risk of over-privileged policies, and faster, safer analytics deployments. Technologies and skills demonstrated: AWS IAM policy design, fine-grained access control for Athena/Glue, policy-as-code, JSON template quality, and disciplined change management with commit hygiene.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness95.2%
Maintainability93.4%
Architecture94.4%
Performance93.4%
AI Usage21.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

BashHCLJSONMarkdownPythonTerraformYAMLbashyaml

Technical Skills

AWSCI/CDCloud InfrastructureCloud Infrastructure ManagementDatabase ManagementDevOpsInfrastructure as CodeJSON ManagementPython scriptingShell ScriptingTerraformbash scriptinginfrastructure as code

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

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ministryofjustice/bichard7-next-shared-infrastructure

Apr 2026 Jul 2026
4 Months active

Languages Used

BashJSONPythonTerraformHCLMarkdownYAMLbash

Technical Skills

AWSCI/CDCloud InfrastructureInfrastructure as CodeJSON ManagementPython scripting