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Auckland, New Zealand

Engineer at Xero, leveraging the latest engineering and software delivery practices to build scalable solutions within the Xero Payroll portfolio.Key Responsibilities● Developing new products, adding, and maintaining the functionality of the current Xero Payroll product.● Maintaining and enhancing team-owned CI/CD pipelines, such as integrating code quality tools (SonarQube) using Kotlin.● Code reviews, documenting, leading, and participating in SCRUM rituals, and participating in incident response/bug fixes.● Interviewing potential hires and mentoring team members, including graduates and junior engineers.Achievements● Participated in design discussions and led the development of Confluent Kafka instances for short-lived Xero Payroll testing environments. Utilized infrastructure as code to automate the creation of Kubernetes pods to help streamline test processes.● Participated in the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) of a .NET background service worker to consume events from a Xero-based Kafka wrapper, handling both event production and consumption seamlessly.

Auckland, New Zealand

Worked as an Integration Engineer on the EDI/3PL team, building seamless connections for Cin7’s customers to retailers and third-party logistics providers, enabling efficient data transfer.Key Responsibilities● Conducted technical scoping, information gathering, and requirements analysis to design and develop integrations between Cin7 and third-party systems.● Led the testing and implementation phases of integration projects, coordinating closely with customers and third-party partners to ensure successful deployment.● Developed and maintained new integrations using .NET/C#, consuming both RESTful and SOAP APIs, as well as handling EDIFACT and file-based (CSV) integrations, ensuring seamless and reliable data exchange between Cin7 and external services.Achievements● Collaborated with the project manager to implement an internal team process that streamlined the scoping and analysis of new integrations, improving efficiency and reducing onboarding time for new projects.● Successfully managed multiple integration projects simultaneously, typically overseeing 6-7 integrations at a time from inception to full completion, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality results. This involved writing code in C# to enhance current integrations available or build new ones.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Working with the Inland Revenue Department to define, design and build the new integrated tax management software.Responsibilities: • Defining requirements and writing code to develop the student loan and child support subsystems of the overall tax system overhaul.• Supporting the student loan subsystem though production support – bug fixing issues that would rise up.• Assisted in implementing/rolling out an upgraded version of the newly implemented tax system.

Auckland, New Zealand

Working on various tasks as an intern at Auckland Council within the Geospatial team, Responsibilities:• Logit Coordinator – managing inquiries coming in and first point of contact for geospatial data requests• Worked on creating reports to identify errors in geospatial data• Data entry.

Auckland, New Zealand

Assisted in developing a cross-platform pet grooming booking mobile application – PetLinx - using Xamarin framework and C#Responsibilities: • Database development of the application• Defining business requirements and designing the application • Design of application UI