Awards
UKIT Industry Awards 2024
Development Team of the Year – Winner
His Majesty’s Passport Office (HMPO) Digital Application Processing Team
As Delivery Lead for two teams at HMPO, I played a key in a programme that received the prestigious UKIT 2024 Development Team of the Year award. This recognition celebrates exceptional achievement in software development and digital innovation within the UK technology sector.
Programme Impact:
- Enabled HMPO to manage 100% of passport applications digitally
- Supporting digital application processes used by millions of customers annually
- Built microservices that orchestrate HMPO’s document handling and premium application services
- Created a data analytics platform delivering insights into product development
Public Sector Project of the Year – Winner
HMPO Digital Transformation Programme
The same programme also received the UKIT 2024 Public Sector Project of the Year award, recognising outstanding digital transformation that transforms public services and citizen experience.
Key Achievements:
- Digital transformation of critical national infrastructure serving millions of UK citizens
- Implementation of modern microservices architecture replacing legacy systems
- Kanban delivery practices enabling multiple daily deployments to production
- Cross-functional team collaboration across government and private sector partners
The UKIT Industry Awards are organised by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and Computing magazine, recognising the very best of the UK’s IT profession.
Case Studies
John Lewis Data Platform Transformation – Solving the Data Pipeline Puzzle
Led the transformation of John Lewis’s data platform, revolutioniaing how teams create and manage data pipelines across the organisation.
Challenge: John Lewis needed a scalable data platform to collect and integrate data from multiple internal and external sources, making it accessible to teams across the organization and external consumers.
Solution:
- Led the “Paved Road” team responsible for platform capabilities development
- Created self-service tools enabling teams to rapidly develop data pipelines
- Implemented Airflow DAGs, Snowflake schemas, GCP integrations, and encryption resources
Impact:
- Reduced data pipeline creation time from months to hours
- Enabled teams to create efficient and robust data products independently
- Significantly improved data agility and productivity across John Lewis
- Empowered data-driven decision making at enterprise scale
Read the full case study: Solving the Data Pipeline Puzzle at John Lewis Partners →