Adam Mcnabb
Chapter Lead Software Engineering at Westpac New Zealand
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolAdam Mcnabb is a Chapter Lead Software Engineering with 12 years of experience building and guiding teams to deliver resilient, cloud-native platforms across finance, aviation, and energy sectors. He blends hands-on engineering—APIs, Kafka, Kubernetes—and practical leadership, routinely contributing code, code reviews, and automated quality gates while coaching developers toward mastery. Adam has led cross-functional delivery of high-impact projects like Air New Zealand’s paperless aircraft solution and Vector’s New Energy Platform, and founded internal forums and guilds to raise performance and technical standards. He champions continuous improvement and measurable quality, introducing mutation and performance testing frameworks and driving migrations from monoliths to microservices and serverless ingestion. Comfortable coordinating with diverse stakeholders from product owners to operations and cyber security, he pairs technical depth with a creative background in digital media that informs pragmatic, user-aware solutions. Based in Auckland, he combines a long-standing passion for coding (starting with QuickBasic on a Tandy) with a focus on fostering collaborative, innovative engineering cultures.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science & Software Development, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science & Software Development at Auckland University of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Digital Media, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Digital Media at East Tennessee State University
English
Github Skills (26)
vaadin9
java7
webapp7
lambda6
aws6
docker6
python6
sam6
debug6
cli5
serverless5
aws-lambda5
serverless-framework4
api-gateway4
aws-sam3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fakataha/p2p-sharing
May 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:62 commits in 8 days
atamakosi/SocketWrench
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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