October 2025: Delivered cross-repo template versioning improvements and IDV letter support, delivering business value through simplified template management, consistent API versioning, and support for Identity Verification letters. Key testing and tooling updates stabilized the template lifecycle and reduced risk in production deployments.

September 2025: Delivered streamlined template handling and clearer personalization logic across notification systems. Key feature work includes centralizing template version retrieval and deprecating explicit versions in the chs-gov-uk-notify-integration-api, with version optionality and removal of duplication; dynamically validating date requirements via context checks. Also implemented an optional template version field in the notification API with targeted test cleanup, and updated dependencies in the Kafka consumer for stability and security. Business impact: reduces data requirements, lowers failure risk in letter dispatch, improves maintainability, and strengthens security posture through up-to-date dependencies. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Java code refactors, test maintenance, dependency management, and modernization of template handling.

January 2025 (2025-01) — In the companieshouse/test-data-generator repository, delivered a critical bug fix that makes User.created timestamps deterministic, improving test reliability and reproducibility of generated data. This involved refactoring user creation to introduce a protected getDateNow() method, enabling exact assertions in tests. All changes are captured in commit 569f78a43f9e43f93e8028ce8bef584c0f20b0c6 with message "Assert time created".