Alisdair Hamblyn
Senior Java Developer at IAG
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolAlisdair Hamblyn is a seasoned Senior Java Developer based in Christchurch, New Zealand, with a long career focused on enterprise Java and Guidewire platform work. He specializes in maintaining and extending insurance and government systems, including policy, billing and claims workflows, and has delivered production-critical integrations via REST and SOAP web services. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs hands-on coding with architecture and test automation—using tools like Selenium, Cucumber, WebLogic/WebSphere, Spring, EJBs and Oracle/DB2 databases. He’s repeatedly acted as a technical lead and mentor on Agile teams, translating business requirements into robust, maintainable Guidewire customisations. Notably, his background includes planning large dependency upgrades and designing migration paths for archival systems, reflecting a pragmatic focus on long-term operability. His combination of deep Java legacy-system experience and practical modernization work makes him a strong steward for mission-critical enterprise applications.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Manufacturing and Industrial Technology, Master’s Degree, Manufacturing and Industrial Technology at Massey University
Github Skills (3)
sourceforge10
slack8
webapp3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ahamblyn/msginf
Dec 2023 - Aug 2024
Messaging Infrastructure
Contributions:44 PRs, 80 pushes, 39 branches in 7 months
ahamblyn/webcurator-upgrade-poc
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches, 1 tag in 4 days
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