
Over seven months, contributed to DFE-Digital/manage-free-school-projects and academies-academisation-api by delivering features and fixes that improved UI clarity, data governance, and application observability. Built and refined UI components using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, including a Section 9 letter template link and a comprehensive cookie consent system. Enhanced backend reliability and compliance by updating project models and aligning export terminology with business processes in C#. Integrated Application Insights telemetry and stabilized build tooling with webpack adjustments. Regularly refactored code for maintainability, improved test coverage with Cypress and unit tests, and ensured accessibility and privacy compliance across evolving product requirements.
June 2025 monthly summary for DFE-Digital/academies-academisation-api: Delivered a scalable feature enabling bulk UKPRN establishment lookups to support large Excel exports by introducing PostBulkEstablishmentsByUkprns, with corresponding interface and service updates and enhanced tests to improve robustness and performance when querying large UKPRN datasets. Implemented fixes to the export flow based on the issue Excel exports fail if too many UKPRNs are queried, including commit 888da764da4215f6937aea790df81e3fdbb54a3c, significantly increasing reliability of exports. Overall, this work reduces failure scenarios in reporting, improves export throughput, and strengthens maintainability and test coverage for high-volume data operations.
June 2025 monthly summary for DFE-Digital/academies-academisation-api: Delivered a scalable feature enabling bulk UKPRN establishment lookups to support large Excel exports by introducing PostBulkEstablishmentsByUkprns, with corresponding interface and service updates and enhanced tests to improve robustness and performance when querying large UKPRN datasets. Implemented fixes to the export flow based on the issue Excel exports fail if too many UKPRNs are queried, including commit 888da764da4215f6937aea790df81e3fdbb54a3c, significantly increasing reliability of exports. Overall, this work reduces failure scenarios in reporting, improves export throughput, and strengthens maintainability and test coverage for high-volume data operations.
May 2025 monthly summary for DFE-Digital/academies-academisation-api focusing on improving the reliability and usability of Excel exports for Advisory Board data. Delivered key data integrity enhancements in the export pipeline, including corrected header labels, proper date sorting, and deduplication of advisory board dates. Reverted interim header changes to final stable headers to ensure consistent exports. These changes reduce manual rework for downstream users and improve governance reporting.
May 2025 monthly summary for DFE-Digital/academies-academisation-api focusing on improving the reliability and usability of Excel exports for Advisory Board data. Delivered key data integrity enhancements in the export pipeline, including corrected header labels, proper date sorting, and deduplication of advisory board dates. Reverted interim header changes to final stable headers to ensure consistent exports. These changes reduce manual rework for downstream users and improve governance reporting.

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