Highlights:

Skills:.Net, Kubernetes, Kafka, Object Oriented Programming, C#, Front end, Typescript, React, API

Engineer 10/2022 - current
Xero, Auckland, New Zealand
Working as an engineer at Xero, tackling a wide variety of work. Involved in things such as maintaining pipelines via IaC, implementing new features, adding new SPAs, building new worker processes, eventing messaging systems, API development, and others.
Responsibilities and key achievements: - Added new endpoints to Xero's publicly available API, enhancing the platform's functionality for third-party integrations. - Led key components of the Payroll Eventing re-platform initiative, contributing to the design and development of a scalable event-driven architecture. - Actively participated in design discussions and developed a proof of concept for spinning up a Kafka instance for short-lived Payroll testing environments, utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate the creation of Kubernetes pods, streamlining testing processes. - Led the full SDLC .NET background service worker to efficiently consume events from the Xero-based Kafka instance. - Enhanced CI/CD pipelines by integrating SonarQube for code quality analysis and EIS metrics for Git repositories and TeamCity builds, ensuring high standards across the development lifecycle. - Led the development and implementation of a partitioning and sliding window process for a high-traffic table, reducing its size by 20% and significantly improving performance. - Actively involved in incident response, code reviews, and the recruitment process, including interviewing potential hires and mentoring graduate team members.--

Auckland University of Technology 03/2015 - 08/2018
Auckland, , New Zealand
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Software Deveopment
Bachelor of Computer and Information Sciences (Major: Software Development) - GPA: 7 (A-) - AUT University Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship - Staples Scholarship (2016)

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