John Field

John Field has a diverse work experience spanning over two decades. John is currently working as an Engineering Manager at LibLynx, where they oversee the development of identity, access, and analytics solutions for online resources. Prior to this, they served as a Lead Engineer at Apolitical, a GovTech startup, where they played a key role in building the first global learning platform for government. During their time at Apolitical, they led the Engineering team, facilitated the migration to modern services architecture, and contributed to the platform's capability, performance, and functionality growth.

Before joining Apolitical, John worked as a Senior Software Engineer at BBC Studios Ltd and as a Learning Platform Team Lead at AVADO. John'sexperience also includes roles at Alexander Street and Alexander Street Press, where they served as a Tech Lead, Team Lead, Senior Information Architect, and Senior Developer. In these positions, they led technical delivery, guided project feasibility studies, and promoted good practices in development processes and system quality.

John's career started at Highbury College, where they worked as a Lecturer and Course Manager, teaching various vocational IT courses. John also held positions at the University of Portsmouth and the Geodata Institute, University of Southampton, where they worked as an Applications Developer and Web Developer, respectively.

Throughout their career, John has demonstrated expertise in a wide range of technologies, including Node, React, MySQL, Postgres, Sequelize, Auth0, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, Gitlab CI/CD, Helm, Terraform, Python, Elasticsearch, Rust, LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), Zend Framework, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP, SQL Server, and Visual Studio. John has also exhibited strong leadership and communication skills, fostering team culture and promoting agile and learning mindsets.

Overall, John Field's work experience showcases their proficiency in technical leadership, project management, and software development across various industries and organizations.

John Field completed their education history with a Master's Degree in Internet Systems Development from the University of Portsmouth, which they obtained between the years 2003 and 2004. Prior to that, they earned a Bachelor's Degree in Hon. Applied Physics from the University of Portsmouth, where they were enrolled from 1992 to 1996. John's education began at Wallingford School, where they attended between the years 1985 and 1992. However, no degree or field of study information is available for their time at Wallingford School.