Lee Longmore
Director Of Innovation
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLee Longmore is a seasoned software leader and founder with over a decade of hands-on full‑stack experience, currently serving as Director of Innovation at CDP while still running his startup, CommentaryBox. He blends entrepreneurial grit—raising seed funding and growing a product on a shoestring—with deep technical craft across JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Ruby and frameworks like React, Django, Rails and Elixir/Phoenix. Known for shipping polished, mobile‑first user experiences and robust data models on PostgreSQL, he comfortably toggles between leading teams and rolling up his sleeves to code. His background spans government digital services, startups and consultancy, giving him a practiced ability to translate stakeholder needs into delightful, usable products. An avid learner, he’s been porting a Rails 6 app to Phoenix to master functional programming—an example of his continual reinvention. Outside work he coaches youth football and practices Vinyasa yoga, reflecting a coach‑led leadership style and disciplined approach to growth.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computer Science 2:1, BSc (Hons) Computer Science 2:1 at De Montfort University
Github Skills (35)
puppet10
ansible-collections10
querying10
rendering9
infiniband9
react-stripe9
infrastructure9
flask8
container8
js6
stripe6
collector6
google-analytics6
frontend5
smoke-test5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/backdrop-transactions-explorer-collector
Nov 2015 - Nov 2017
Backdrop collector for the Transactions Explorer Google Spreadsheet
Contributions:19 PRs, 23 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 11 months
google-spreadsheetbackdroptransactionsexplorercollector
alphagov/performanceplatform-admin
Oct 2014 - Nov 2017
A Flask app to let authorised users update performance data on GOV.UK
Contributions:89 commits, 40 PRs, 77 pushes in 3 years 1 month
flaskperformance-platform
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