February 2026 delivered two key features across the ministry of justice analytical platform ecosystem, with a focus on performance, automation, and maintainability. - Analytical Platform: Added an Athena workgroup for the dbt performance project to boost data processing throughput and efficiency (commit aa17f82ae7b3a47301e60e84a01777a3923de3eb). - Analytical Platform Airflow: Introduced a new workflow.yml for the dbt/cadet pipeline to streamline performance dashboard deployments (commit 8929ba435de80cc06dd2e47fc97ae2eac7d00f53). Major bugs fixed: None reported this period; focus was on delivering features and improving automation. Overall impact: Accelerated data processing for analytics workloads and reduced deployment toil for dashboards, enabling faster, more reliable insights and decision-making. The work lays foundations for scalable analytics with clearer, repeatable deployment patterns across repos. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Terraform/IaC (athena-workgroups.tf), AWS Athena, dbt, Airflow, YAML-based workflow configuration, Git-based change management, and cross-repo collaboration.

June 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/analytical-platform-airflow focusing on delivering production-grade, auditable data workflows and improving environment parity across DEV/TEST/PROD.

May 2025 monthly summary focused on delivering a scalable, versioned workflow for weekly prison population statistics within the Airflow platform, with emphasis on automation, reproducibility, and traceability.