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Matthew Price

Worked across multiple Ministry of Justice repositories to deliver secure, maintainable cloud infrastructure and data platform enhancements. Focused on access control, secrets management, and CI/CD pipeline reliability, this developer implemented features such as centralized S3 logging, configurable secrets rotation, and SSO-based security auditing using Terraform, YAML, and AWS IAM. They improved incident response by refining PagerDuty on-call rotas and streamlined deployment workflows in ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform and related repositories. Their approach emphasized reducing configuration drift, aligning access roles, and automating policy enforcement, resulting in improved governance, auditability, and operational efficiency for cloud-based data engineering and analytics environments.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

87%Features

Repository Contributions

19Total
Bugs
2
Commits
19
Features
13
Lines of code
488
Activity Months8

Work History

June 2026

1 Commits • 1 Features

Jun 1, 2026

June 2026 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform: Key feature delivered: Data Platform CI Approval Process Optimization by removing the Data Platform team as GitHub Action approvers, streamlining CI workflows in the data factory environment. No major bugs fixed this month. Impact: reduced approval bottlenecks, faster deployment of data factory changes, and improved governance alignment. Technologies highlighted include GitHub Actions, YAML configuration, data factory environment management, and repository governance. Commits include aafb85de4342c4d608c5e2f02c842f259eada862 (Update data-factory-moj.json to remove Data Platform team as github action approvers).

February 2026

1 Commits • 1 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform. Delivered a new SSO-based contractor security auditing capability by creating a dedicated SSO group for the security-architect team on data-factory-moj, enabling secure contractor access for security auditing and onboarding of new accounts. No major bugs fixed this month. Overall impact: strengthened security posture, improved auditing capabilities, and faster, governance-aligned onboarding of contractors. Technologies demonstrated: SSO-based RBAC, access control, security-auditing workflows, and clear commit traceability.

January 2026

1 Commits

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/analytical-platform. Implemented PagerDuty On-Call Rota Alignment to fix alert routing and on-call ownership. Removed an incorrect user from the support rota to ensure alerts are directed to the proper on-call engineer. Change implemented via Terraform in de-support-rota.tf, committed as 9b97beca0de6b7acd8d9263b9add02e6e1096fc4 (Update de-support-rota.tf (#9614)). Result: improved alert routing accuracy, faster incident response, and stronger on-call governance across the platform.

June 2025

3 Commits • 3 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 focused on tightening access controls and governance for data platforms across three MOJ repositories, delivering environment-specific S3 access alignment, enabling data tagging capabilities, and refining the Data Engineering support rota to reflect current team structure and escalation procedures. These efforts reduce environment drift, improve data management and incident response readiness, and demonstrate strong policy automation and cross-team collaboration.

March 2025

4 Commits • 2 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments. Delivered two security- and reliability-focused enhancements to data ingestion and export workflows: FMS HO Data Feed Landing Bucket and Monitoring; Export Bucket Module Enhancements and Policy Hardening. The changes improve data reliability, monitoring coverage, and platform security while reducing operational risk through conditional provisioning and improved IAM controls.

February 2025

5 Commits • 4 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 performance summary for ministryofjustice/data-and-analytics-engineering and ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments. Delivered concrete business value through documentation updates, a more reliable and secure CI/CD pipeline, centralized logging infrastructure, and a configurable secrets rotation policy. The work improves deployment stability, observability, and security posture, enabling safer, faster changes across environments.

January 2025

3 Commits • 2 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025 (Month: 2025-01) – Delivered security-focused access-control hardening and naming consistency improvements for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments. Actions focused on tightening access to critical infrastructure and data exports, and standardizing Terraform data-sharing configuration filenames to improve maintainability. No major customer-reported defects fixed this month; the work reduced blast radius, improved compliance with access-control policies, and streamlined IaC governance for future changes. Key commits demonstrate practical IaC skills and security posture uplift.

November 2024

1 Commits

Nov 1, 2024

Monthly summary for 2024-11 focusing on security roles cleanup in data configuration for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform. Delivered a targeted bug fix removing roles added for a security audit and a migration context, and updated electronic-monitoring-data.json to reflect security-focused data configuration and pave the way for future migration cleanup. The change reduces configuration drift, strengthens data governance, and sets up groundwork for streamlined migrations.

Activity

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Quality Metrics

Correctness92.6%
Maintainability93.6%
Architecture91.6%
Performance86.4%
AI Usage20.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

HCLJSONMarkdownTerraformYAML

Technical Skills

AWSAWS IAMCI/CDCloud EngineeringCloud InfrastructureCloud SecurityConfiguration ManagementData ManagementDevOpsDocumentationGitHub ActionsIAMInfrastructure as CodeMonitoringS3

Repositories Contributed To

4 repos

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

ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments

Jan 2025 Jun 2025
4 Months active

Languages Used

HCLTerraform

Technical Skills

Cloud InfrastructureDevOpsInfrastructure as CodeTerraformAWSCloud Engineering

ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform

Nov 2024 Jun 2026
4 Months active

Languages Used

JSONHCL

Technical Skills

Configuration ManagementData ManagementAWSIAMTerraformaccess management

ministryofjustice/data-and-analytics-engineering

Feb 2025 Feb 2025
1 Month active

Languages Used

MarkdownYAML

Technical Skills

CI/CDDocumentationGitHub Actions

ministryofjustice/analytical-platform

Jun 2025 Jan 2026
2 Months active

Languages Used

TerraformHCL

Technical Skills

DevOpsInfrastructure as CodeTerraform