Alex Gibson
Senior Principal Engineer at Xero
Paraparaumu, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolAlex Gibson is a Senior Principal Engineer with 14 years of experience who specializes in architecting resilient, cloud-native platforms and elevating engineering capability at scale. Based in Paraparaumu, New Zealand, he has driven cross-organisation improvements at Xero—creating engineering standards, reliability frameworks, and communities of practice that materially sped incident detection and delivery throughput. He blends deep hands-on systems design and platform strategy with people-first leadership, mentoring engineers and reshaping hiring and career frameworks to embed architectural accountability. A former founder and early startup engineer, he pairs startup pragmatism (shipping billing, analytics and CI/CD foundations) with enterprise-level influence such as membership on an AWS advisory board. Not obvious from a glance: he’s repeatedly led “Tiger Teams” and targeted observability gaps to deliver quick, measurable reliability wins across complex product portfolios.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BE with Honors, Software Engineering, A+ - First Class Honors, BE with Honors, Software Engineering, A+ - First Class Honors at Massey UniversityAutomotive Technician, Engineering, A+, Automotive Technician, Engineering, A+ at WelTec
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Github Skills (69)
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react10
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JavaScript-NZ/nodebots
Sep 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:45 commits, 6 PRs, 33 pushes in 2 years 5 months
botnodejsnodebots
WikiNewZealand/new-zealand-data
Jul 2015 - Sep 2017
A list of New Zealand Datasets and APIs
Contributions:16 commits, 11 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 2 months
apizealanddatasetopendatadatasets
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