April 2026 monthly summary for hmcts/em-icp-api: Delivered two critical changes that strengthen CI/CD security and secrets management. Implemented Jenkins user-assigned identity with Key Vault access to secure Jenkins secrets management, enabling safer secret handling across build jobs. Patched security vulnerabilities in Axios and related dependencies, including improvements to handling of sensitive headers and input validation, to harden the API surface and reduce risk. These efforts reduce exposure of credentials in CI/CD pipelines, improve security compliance, and contribute to more reliable deployments. Technologies/skills demonstrated include cloud IAM with user-assigned identities, Azure Key Vault integration, dependency vulnerability remediation, secure headers handling, and input validation.

Month: 2025-07 – hmcts/auto-shutdown. Key feature delivered: Migrate the CI keepalive workflow to the liskin/gh-workflow-keepalive action, updating dependencies and permissions to ensure scheduled jobs remain alive without changing core functionality. Major bugs fixed: none reported this month; work focused on reliability and workflow modernization. Overall impact: improved uptime of scheduled tasks, reduced risk of silent job expiry, and enhanced maintainability through standardization of the keepalive pattern; governance and security posture improved via controlled dependencies and permissions. Technologies/skills demonstrated: GitHub Actions, external actions integration, dependency management, permissions scoping, and validation/testing of migrations. Next steps: monitor job uptime post-migration and consider applying the same pattern to other repos as needed.