Steve Laing
Software Developer at Department for Education
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarSteve Laing is a seasoned software developer based in London with over 16 years of commercial experience delivering web applications, APIs and digital transformation across public sector, health and agency environments. He combines deep Ruby/Rails and JavaScript expertise (React, Node, Backbone) with systems work in Go, Docker and Kubernetes, and a history of architecting secure, test-driven solutions for high-profile clients like GOV.UK and King’s College Hospital. A pragmatic lead and mentor, Steve has repeatedly guided launches and deployment pipelines, built medical terminology APIs and contributed presentation and indexing fixes to widely used open source government projects such as alphagov/whitehall. He thrives on socially valuable projects, is an active open source advocate and contributor to Rails and Ruby libraries, and brings a rare blend of legacy Java/JEE experience and modern cloud-native tooling. Known for consistent, quality-driven delivery, he often surfaces small but impactful UX and content-handling improvements that improve publication accuracy and searchability.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
ruby10
erb9
datagovuk9
markdown-it9
markdown9
frontend8
testing8
web-frontend8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Mar 2014 - Nov 2018
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:217 commits, 139 PRs, 202 pushes in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Steve made contributions focused on rendering markdown descriptions, removing markdown in indexing, and adding tests. They also updated the code to render fractions using a partial and added a notice for statistics views. The changes indicate the user was involved in presentation logic and ensuring content is displayed appropriately within the Whitehall publishing platform.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
NHSDigital/dtos-communication-management
Oct 2024 - Jul 2025
Contributions:94 reviews, 248 PRs, 328 pushes in 9 months
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