Infrastructure Engineer at Xero, working across CI/CD automation, AWS, Kubernetes, and observability. Started in web development, then spent six years managing a multi-million dollar retail operation before returning to engineering. That operational experience shapes how I approach reliability and cross-team communication.
- Location
New Zealand
- Job status
Currently employed
Skills
Technologies
Containerization platform used for creating reproducible testing environments and deployment packaging across multiple projects.
Provided specialized support for .NET applications, debugging and resolving issues across production environments.
Modern programming language used for building CI/CD automation and tooling, particularly in JVM-based environments.
Container orchestration platform used for deploying and managing applications at scale in cloud environments.
Infrastructure as Code tool that I use extensively for provisioning and managing cloud resources across AWS and Azure environments.
Used for building automation tooling and CI/CD pipeline scripts, providing type safety for infrastructure automation projects.
Cloud & DevOps
Amazon Web Services cloud platform used for hosting applications, managing infrastructure, and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
Microsoft Azure cloud platform used for infrastructure provisioning, application hosting, and DevOps pipeline implementation.
CI/CD platform used extensively for automating software testing, building, and deployment workflows.
Deployment automation tool used for managing releases and deployments across multiple environments in SaaS products.
Work
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- Employment type
Full-time
- Work model
Hybrid
- Location
Wellington
- Build CI/CD automation and reproducible testing environments using Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes on AWS.
- Lead incident response and on-call support, working with Grafana, New Relic, and Sumo Logic.
- Implement synthetic monitoring to catch pipeline issues before they reach product teams.
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- Employment type
Full-time
- Work model
Hybrid
- Location
Wellington
- Lifecycle Lead for multiple .NET SaaS products, owning operations across development and production.
- Built CI/CD pipelines and managed Azure and AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
- Authored security policies and configured access controls supporting ISO 27001 certification.
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- Employment type
Full-time
- Work model
On-site
- Location
Wellington
- Led a team of 4 developers and 2 designers while contributing as a developer.
- Led delivery of an interactive dashboard for the University of Chicago’s Center on Democracy, helping their researchers explore global democracy data.
- Managed hiring, performance reviews, and operational strategy with company directors.
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- Employment type
Full-time
- Work model
On-site
- Location
Wellington
- Managed a flagship supermarket and online delivery service across 5 departments, leading a team of 40.
- Owned multi-million dollar P&L and consistently met head office targets.
- Scaled online delivery 10x during the pandemic.
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- Employment type
Full-time
- Work model
On-site
- Location
Racine, Wisconsin - USA
- Designed and built corporate websites using WordPress, PHP, HTML, CSS, and MySQL.
- Launched the company’s social media marketing strategy and managed content across multiple platforms.
- Produced marketing and training videos for customers, including on-site shoots for enterprise clients like Southwest Airlines.
Education
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- Mode
Full-time
- Minor
Film Studies
College Programming Director at the university radio station, KUMD, where I also worked as a Radio DJ. Treasurer of the Art Guild and member of the Literary Guild.
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- Mode
Full-time
- Qualification
80 Credits NZQA Level 6
Intensive full-stack bootcamp covering JavaScript, Handlebars, React, Redux, and Node.js, with practical grounding in TDD and Agile. Marked my transition from operations management back into software development.