Peter Chamberlin

Pete is a technology leader and digital specialist with a background in software engineering and architecture. He has extensive experience in the UK public sector, helping organisations make sense of their technology challenges, turn policy ideas into working systems and grow their people and capabilities to operate sustainably. He supports senior leaders and their teams to succeed with digital technology in their organisations.

His expertise includes sustainable high-performing software and platform engineering, technical architecture, technology strategy, transformation, governance and assurance. He specialises in digital identity, trust and secure data architecture and has contributed to the UK's digital identity and data infrastructure with his design for the UK’s digital identity service, One Login.

Pete previously served as Strategic Technology Advisor at the Department for Education, supporting the merger of DfE’s Digital and Technology directorates. This included working as Technical Architect on high-priority programmes such as Get Help With Technology, assessing the state of digital and technology in children’s social care and supporting large-scale digital transformation work at the Student Loans Company.

As Lead Technical Architect at GDS, Pete was involved in a number of significant and impactful projects, including co-writing the API Technical and Data Standards and having responsibility for GOV.UK PaaS and the underlying infrastructure for GOV.UK, GOV.UK Verify and other GDS services.