About me
👋 Hello! I’m Jake Mulley. I’m a hands-on technical lead, software engineer, and technical architect.
I have over 11 years experience working within the public and private sectors, as well as with agencies, startups and charities.
I’m currently a Principal Technical Architect at the UK government’s Ministry of Justice.
Day to day, I regularly work on:
- modernising legacy products, services, and infrastructure
- defining and building technical architecture, specialising in cloud-native technology and serverless
- building accessible, progessively-enhanced services
- designing data-driven and domain-driven services
- collaborating across stakeholders at all levels to gain buy-in and define technical strategies
To do this, I tend to utilise whatever is best for the job at hand, though I often use:
| Purpose | Thing |
|---|---|
| Cloud infrastructure | Providers:
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| Backend development | Node, Python, Ruby, Rails, PHP, Laravel, Lumen, Go |
| Frontend development | Vanilla HTML, CSS, JavaScript and flavours:
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| General scripting | Node, JavaScript, sh and zsh, Go |
| CI/CD pipelines | GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Concourse, Jenkins, GoCD |
| Issue tracking | Jira, GitHub Projects |
| Version control | Git (inc. GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket) |
Some of my work is open source on GitHub.
Work experience
Principal Technical Architect at Ministry of Justice
Oct 2023 – present
I’m currently a Principal Technical Architect within the Platforms and Architecture team, focussing on cloud hosting, DevOps & platform engineering.
Lead Technical Architect at Ministry of Justice
Apr 2022 – Oct 2023
I was Lead Technical Architect within the Platforms and Architecture team.
Head of Hosting & Digital Operations at Ministry of Justice
Mar 2021 – Apr 2022
I worked within the Platforms and Architecture team, leading five teams to transform how the Ministry of Justice hosts services, with a clear drive towards public cloud.
The teams I led were:
- Cloud Platform, who run a cloud-native hosting platform for modern services
- Modernisation Platform, who run a cloud-first hosting platform for older, legacy services
- Operations Engineering, who build or buy software for the benefit of and use by digital teams
- Legal Aid Agency Operations, who support Legal Aid Agency in cloud adoption
- Digital Studio Operations, who support Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service in cloud adoption
Technical Architect at Ministry of Justice
Aug 2020 – Mar 2021
Prior to becoming Head of Hosting & Digital Operations, I was Technical Architect for the Modernisation Platform.
The Modernisation Platform vision was:
a single platform which allows the Ministry of Justice to modernise services, and run them in a unified, scalable way
I led a multi-disciplinary team and built a platform that:
- automated environment provisioning
- automated security baselines within AWS
- enforced CI/CD for infrastructure configuration and deployment
- started to automate networking configuration to centralise networking management for legacy services
I also began centralising and maintaining best practises within the Ministry of Justice’s AWS estate, including introducing:
- AWS SSO for authentication into AWS accounts
- centralised security services and monitoring
- and more…
Earlier in my career
| Organisation | Dates |
|---|---|
| Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | Mar 2019 – Aug 2020 |
| UK Parliament | Oct 2016 – Mar 2019 |
| GOLIN | Dec 2014 – Oct 2016 |
| Hickup | Mar 2014 – Sep 2014 |
| Mindwork Labs | Dec 2012 – Jul 2013 |
| Premier Content Links | Nov 2012 – Dec 2012 |
Want to know more?
Send me an email and ask for my CV. If you’ve a role in mind, please include salary details.