Infrastructure engineer with a background that spans both engineering and operations. I started in web development, spent six years running a multi-million-dollar retail operation, then came back to engineering. That time managing teams, handling competing priorities, and keeping operations running smoothly shaped how I approach building reliable platforms today. As the industry shifts toward agentic workflows, this background gives me a practical edge. I know how to break down complex problems, manage concurrent workstreams, and coordinate both people and AI agents to get things done.
- hello@ianmontgomery.dev
- Location
- Dunedin, New Zealand
- Job status
- Currently employed
Skills
Technologies
Cloud & DevOps
Work
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.