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Lachlandow1

Lachlan Dow delivered robust features and workflow enhancements across the Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision and appeals-back-office repositories, focusing on appeal submission, notification systems, and data integrity. He implemented end-to-end solutions such as Rule 6 statement workflows, automated document sharing, and audit trail improvements, using JavaScript, Node.js, and Terraform. His technical approach combined backend API development, frontend UI enhancements, and infrastructure-as-code for controlled rollouts and compliance. Lachlan addressed complex validation, email templating, and data migration challenges, ensuring reliable communications and traceable user actions. The work demonstrated depth in full stack development, with careful attention to maintainability, regulatory alignment, and operational resilience.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

78%Features

Repository Contributions

109Total
Bugs
11
Commits
109
Features
40
Lines of code
29,429
Activity Months11

Work History

February 2026

15 Commits • 4 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026: Delivered user-guidance improvements, reliable Hastings LPA communications, and automated PoE sharing across appeals. Strengthened data modeling and UI/audit-trail visibility across planning decision and back-office, enabling better compliance, traceability, and operational efficiency.

January 2026

25 Commits • 7 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 performance summary for Planning-Inspectorate repositories. Focused on delivering the Rule 6 MVP, improving transparency in communications, and raising data quality across LPA lists. Key achievements and work artifacts span features, notifications, UX improvements, API/representation updates, and ongoing data hygiene efforts.

December 2025

17 Commits • 9 Features

Dec 1, 2025

December 2025 performance summary for Planning-Inspectorate repositories. Delivered high-impact features across appeals back-office and appeal-planning-decision, strengthened auditability, improved UI/document management, expanded Rule 6 workflows, corrected deadline handling, and boosted platform reliability. These initiatives improve compliance traceability, user experience, data integrity, and system resilience, setting the stage for scalable data models and future enhancements.

November 2025

12 Commits • 5 Features

Nov 1, 2025

November 2025 performance summary highlighting feature deliveries, bug fixes, and cross-repo improvements across planning-decision and back-office teams. Focused on strengthening the appeal submission workflow, data quality, and communications reliability to drive faster processing and better stakeholder outcomes.

October 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Oct 1, 2025

Month: 2025-10 — Key accomplishments include delivering the Missed site visit tracking and rescheduling workflow for Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office. This feature records missed site visits (who missed: LPA, inspector, or appellant), refactors the scheduling pipeline to accommodate rearranged visits, and sends notifications to appellant and LPA. The work covered database schema updates, API endpoint changes, service layer logic, and frontend integration to support the new workflow. There were no separate major bug fixes recorded this month; the focus was end-to-end feature delivery with validation across backend and frontend. Overall impact: improved scheduling resilience, enhanced traceability of missed visits, and proactive stakeholder communications, leading to reduced delays and better governance. Technologies/skills demonstrated: database migrations, API design and versioning, service-layer refactoring, frontend development, and cross-functional collaboration. Commit reference: b63fa0176c6915bfa31f5e18a4108b73632344f1 (feat(appeals): record missed site visit save functionality) for A2-4233.

September 2025

5 Commits

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025 (Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision): Focused on stabilizing core input handling and data routing. Delivered two critical bug fixes that reduce user friction and improve data integrity: Robust Date Input Validation and LPA Contact Email Data Corrections. Prepared for production with clear commit messages and traceability.

August 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025 — Key feature delivery and bug fixes in Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision. Implemented Date Input Validation Enhancement via middleware to convert month names to numeric values, extended validation to accept numeric months and common month abbreviations, and propagated changes across multiple routes and components within the forms-web-app package. Result: improved user experience and data integrity across date fields. Notable work included addressing end-to-end date validation issue (A2-3980) with commit 58e532b53b8ac0130a4dcc6c6cf1ec45ead9d376.

July 2025

19 Commits • 6 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025: Delivered a suite of user‑facing enhancements across site visits, decision letters, and document handling, while strengthening data integrity, auditing, and end‑to‑end traceability. Key improvements span UX-focused validation and messaging, configurable re-issue flows, and new data fields, underpinned by robust API/UI integration and business-day validation checks.

June 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025: Delivered a focused UI improvement for the appeal decision workflow by widening the appeal page content column to two-thirds, improving readability and presentation of appeal details within the grid layout. This aligns with design standards and enhances reviewer efficiency. Change implemented in Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision; associated fix commit cc36bf1f5d0fa44ab733a7cf2a8d194c3ddc1f30 addressing A2-2705.

May 2025

7 Commits • 2 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025: Delivered core Scoping Opinion functionality for LPA questionnaires (S20/S78) in Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision, including a new scoping opinion question, document upload page, UI enhancements, and test alignment, all guarded by a feature flag. Implemented an environment-based rollout control for the feature via infrastructure-environments to enable per-environment enablement. Fixed essential bugs in the scoping opinion flow (boolean page title and routing) and performed test configuration cleanup (removing journey-file coverage) to reflect the updated scope. These changes support regulatory-aligned decision workflows with safer, auditable rollouts and improved release governance. Demonstrated skills in feature flagging, environment-specific configuration, test-driven development, and UI-backend integration.

April 2025

6 Commits • 4 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025: Implemented a cohesive email notification strategy across appeal flows using reusable templates and a NotifyService integration. Delivered four new notification features with associated tests, refactors, and template renames to improve maintainability and user communications. The work enhances compliance, reduces manual follow-ups, and stabilizes end-to-end submission notifications.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness93.4%
Maintainability87.0%
Architecture86.2%
Performance85.0%
AI Usage22.6%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

CSVHCLHTMLJSONJavaScriptMarkdownNunjucksSQLTOMLTerraform

Technical Skills

API DevelopmentAPI IntegrationAPI TestingAPI developmentAPI integrationBack End DevelopmentBack-end DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentCSSCode RenamingConfigurationCypressData ManagementData MappingDatabase Management

Repositories Contributed To

3 repos

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

Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office

Jul 2025 Feb 2026
6 Months active

Languages Used

JavaScriptNunjucksSQLTypeScriptTerraform

Technical Skills

API DevelopmentAPI IntegrationBack End DevelopmentBack-end DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentCSS

Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision

Apr 2025 Feb 2026
9 Months active

Languages Used

JavaScriptSQLTOMLTypeScriptNunjucksCSVHTMLMarkdown

Technical Skills

API DevelopmentAPI IntegrationAPI TestingBackend DevelopmentCode RenamingEmail Notifications

Planning-Inspectorate/infrastructure-environments

May 2025 May 2025
1 Month active

Languages Used

HCL

Technical Skills

Infrastructure as CodeTerraform