John Player
DevOps Lead at Money and Pensions Service
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Player is a DevOps Lead with a decade of hands-on experience and over 20 years in technical roles, currently shaping cloud and delivery practices at the Money and Pensions Service in England. He has progressed internally from frontend and UX-focused roles through business analysis and automation engineering to leading DevOps, giving him rare end-to-end product delivery empathy. Skilled in Python, JavaScript, Selenium/Behave and Cypress, he built test automation frameworks that moved teams from manual QA to reliable CI/CD pipelines. His background in accessibility-first frontend development and stakeholder-facing product work informs pragmatic, user-centered infrastructure decisions. Colleagues rely on him to bridge engineering, product and operations while keeping performance and compliance front of mind. He combines creative design roots with modern DevOps discipline to deliver resilient, accessible digital services for public-facing platforms.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Essex
Github Skills (20)
solidworks9
placement8
calculator7
pipenv7
finance6
marketing6
financial6
ecommerce6
cms5
mixins4
sass2
ui-components2
markdown2
frontend2
lts2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
johnplayer1982/selenium-azure-tools
Jul 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:138 PRs, 501 pushes, 137 branches in 1 year 3 months
johnplayer1982/selenium-azure-corporate
Nov 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:44 PRs, 251 pushes, 51 branches in 11 months
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