Andrew Ford
Advanced Developer Trainer & Mentor (L5 & L6 NZQA) at MISSION READY
Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Ford is an experienced full-stack developer and educator with two decades in software and over a decade in senior technical roles, currently training and mentoring NZQA Level 5 & 6 developers. He has moved between hands-on engineering and leadership—building cloud-hosted apps with React, TypeScript, Node.js, .NET and AWS/Azure while leading teams, curriculum design, and assessment at Developers Institute and Mission Ready. Known for simplifying complex topics, he creates lessons, video tutorials and technical assessments that translate industry practice into measurable learner outcomes. His background spans fintech, health, government and recruitment SaaS, and he has repeatedly driven TypeScript/React adoption and cloud migration in legacy teams. Colleagues seek him out for mentorship and pragmatic architecture decisions that balance delivery with developer growth. Based in Tauranga, he blends production-grade engineering with a rare focus on teaching craft and workforce readiness.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Business Computing Computer Science, Diploma in Business Computing Computer Science at Bay of Plenty Polytechnic
English
Github Skills (40)
macos10
form-generator9
survey6
nodejs6
toolbox6
supabase5
drag5
nextjs5
docker5
dynamic-forms5
form-builder5
javascript4
blueprint4
angular-form-builder4
drag-and-drop4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
andrewjamesford/demo-designer-doggies-pern
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
A demonstration of a monorepo full stack web application built on the PERN (postgres, express, react and node) stack.
Contributions:39 PRs, 39 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 6 months
dockernodejspern-stackreactjs
qjumpersnz/qjumpers-subsites
Jul 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:17 PRs, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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