
Rebecca Baker engineered deployment automation, test reliability, and log management improvements across multiple HMCTS repositories, notably hmcts/cnp-flux-config and hmcts/hmc-cft-hearing-service. She delivered infrastructure-as-code solutions using Helm, Kubernetes, and YAML to optimize environment parity, streamline configuration, and reduce resource usage. Rebecca enhanced CI/CD pipelines and stabilized test suites by refining Gradle and Java-based test automation, addressing flakiness and accelerating feedback cycles. Her work included building robust Logstash pipelines for production log processing and implementing deterministic mocks for backend unit tests. These contributions improved deployment consistency, data integrity, and operational resilience, demonstrating depth in backend development and configuration management.
Delivered a new standard Logstash processing pipeline for the FPL application, including defined input, filter, and output sections with tuned performance settings, and added a dead-letter indexing pipeline to improve error handling and data processing resilience in production logs. This work enhances reliability, reduces data loss risk, and simplifies remediation for failed events. All changes are tracked in hmcts/cnp-flux-config with two commits updating the Logstash config.
Delivered a new standard Logstash processing pipeline for the FPL application, including defined input, filter, and output sections with tuned performance settings, and added a dead-letter indexing pipeline to improve error handling and data processing resilience in production logs. This work enhances reliability, reduces data loss risk, and simplifies remediation for failed events. All changes are tracked in hmcts/cnp-flux-config with two commits updating the Logstash config.
October 2025 monthly summary for hmcts/hmc-cft-hearing-service highlighting feature delivery in the AAT environment configuration, bug fixes for test data consistency, and the resulting business value, impact, and skills demonstrated.
October 2025 monthly summary for hmcts/hmc-cft-hearing-service highlighting feature delivery in the AAT environment configuration, bug fixes for test data consistency, and the resulting business value, impact, and skills demonstrated.
August 2025: Focused on test reliability improvements in hmcts/ccd-data-store-api, with no new public features released. Implemented a deterministic mock for Case Service.clone in unit tests to eliminate flakiness when details are absent, enabling safer refactors and faster CI feedback. This work reduces debugging time and increases confidence in ongoing changes to the data-store API. Commit bb2a0be00f6b903a8dff6496816390c131bbbe80.
August 2025: Focused on test reliability improvements in hmcts/ccd-data-store-api, with no new public features released. Implemented a deterministic mock for Case Service.clone in unit tests to eliminate flakiness when details are absent, enabling safer refactors and faster CI feedback. This work reduces debugging time and increases confidence in ongoing changes to the data-store API. Commit bb2a0be00f6b903a8dff6496816390c131bbbe80.
July 2025 monthly summary focusing on business value and technical achievements across two repositories. Key outcome: improved CI/CD stability, faster feedback, and reduced flaky test failures by isolating and stabilizing contract testing and Swagger UI/API spec tests.
July 2025 monthly summary focusing on business value and technical achievements across two repositories. Key outcome: improved CI/CD stability, faster feedback, and reduced flaky test failures by isolating and stabilizing contract testing and Swagger UI/API spec tests.
June 2025: Focused on aligning the CCD API Gateway Web deployment with the latest production image and correcting environment-specific image policies for demo and ithc environments. This work improves environment parity, reduces deployment risk, and accelerates feature validation in demos.
June 2025: Focused on aligning the CCD API Gateway Web deployment with the latest production image and correcting environment-specific image policies for demo and ithc environments. This work improves environment parity, reduces deployment risk, and accelerates feature validation in demos.
May 2025 monthly summary for hmcts/cnp-flux-config: Delivered deployment optimization for the HMI Outbound Adapter across prod00 and prod01, consolidating configuration changes, reducing replicas to one, disabling in one environment, and updating Helm/Flux/Kustomize paths. Renamed configurations to prod-00.yaml and prod-01.yaml to improve consistency and cost efficiency. Implemented via five commits with the message 'HMAN-XX drop outbound adaptor replicas to one' (hashes: c36c4e647ce265f00134a6419f9b721bfadb1676, 8d4254845d4167ecff109e33f03b4a1852197d3d, d3f8e023820f7698b9ef5acb7c4f47146c11619d, 2d7248998c6e84bd2d0b703b7067eda6210736a3, ab439a57023b5ae06d543e167f965463ab96853d).
May 2025 monthly summary for hmcts/cnp-flux-config: Delivered deployment optimization for the HMI Outbound Adapter across prod00 and prod01, consolidating configuration changes, reducing replicas to one, disabling in one environment, and updating Helm/Flux/Kustomize paths. Renamed configurations to prod-00.yaml and prod-01.yaml to improve consistency and cost efficiency. Implemented via five commits with the message 'HMAN-XX drop outbound adaptor replicas to one' (hashes: c36c4e647ce265f00134a6419f9b721bfadb1676, 8d4254845d4167ecff109e33f03b4a1852197d3d, d3f8e023820f7698b9ef5acb7c4f47146c11619d, 2d7248998c6e84bd2d0b703b7067eda6210736a3, ab439a57023b5ae06d543e167f965463ab96853d).
December 2024 monthly summary for hmcts/cnp-flux-config: Delivered new test stub service infrastructure to enable robust HMC/CCD testing, with deployment configuration and updated test routing to the stub environment. Fixed Jira issue type mapping in Slack-help-bot to ensure correct ticket categorization by updating the issue type ID and renaming descriptor. These changes improve test coverage, reduce environment dependencies, and enhance ticket routing accuracy, contributing to faster validation cycles and higher deployment confidence.
December 2024 monthly summary for hmcts/cnp-flux-config: Delivered new test stub service infrastructure to enable robust HMC/CCD testing, with deployment configuration and updated test routing to the stub environment. Fixed Jira issue type mapping in Slack-help-bot to ensure correct ticket categorization by updating the issue type ID and renaming descriptor. These changes improve test coverage, reduce environment dependencies, and enhance ticket routing accuracy, contributing to faster validation cycles and higher deployment confidence.
November 2024 performance and deployment summary for hmcts/cnp-flux-config. Focused on enabling reliable perftest readiness through automated deployment and management of CCD components, plus data hygiene improvements for test data. Delivered multi-commit changes across the perftest environment to configure and deploy the CCD Data Store API and Logstash, enable controlled stop/rollback of Logstash instances for performance testing, and refine test data cleanup for case_data_logstash_queue. These actions reduced setup time, improved data integrity in test runs, and strengthened release confidence for performance testing.
November 2024 performance and deployment summary for hmcts/cnp-flux-config. Focused on enabling reliable perftest readiness through automated deployment and management of CCD components, plus data hygiene improvements for test data. Delivered multi-commit changes across the perftest environment to configure and deploy the CCD Data Store API and Logstash, enable controlled stop/rollback of Logstash instances for performance testing, and refine test data cleanup for case_data_logstash_queue. These actions reduced setup time, improved data integrity in test runs, and strengthened release confidence for performance testing.

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