Andrew Paxley
Team Lead - Engineering at Xero
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Paxley is an engineering manager with 17 years’ experience blending hands-on backend development, cloud infrastructure and team leadership across companies like Xero, Trade Me and Silverstripe. He started as a PHP developer and AWS orchestrator and now focuses on leading networks and platform engineering, streamlining processes and mentoring teams to deliver reliable systems. A prolific contributor to the Silverstripe ecosystem, he’s improved core CMS and framework components—demonstrating strong attention to code quality, testing and UX edge-cases. Comfortable toggling between DevOps, CI/CD and application logic, he has led PCI-compliant migrations, Kubernetes and ECS initiatives while still diving into code when needed. Based in Christchurch, New Zealand, he pairs a practical engineering mindset with a background in music composition, bringing creativity and rhythm to complex technical problems.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music Music Theory and Composition, Bachelor of Music Music Theory and Composition at University of CanterburyDiploma of Computer Servicing Computer Servicing, Diploma of Computer Servicing Computer Servicing at Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec)Bachelor of Music Music Theory and Composition, Bachelor of Music Music Theory and Composition at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (17)
cms10
javascript10
silverstripe10
databases10
php10
database10
testing9
database-api9
html8
interaction8
yaml8
unit-testing8
fest7
script6
jscript6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
silverstripe/silverstripe-framework
Feb 2012 - Jan 2022
Silverstripe Framework, the MVC framework that powers Silverstripe CMS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 112 commits, 54 PRs in 10 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the Silverstripe Framework, focusing on improving the functionality of the GridField component and addressing issues related to database interactions. Their work included resolving problems with unit tests, improving the GridField's actions and pagination, and modifying core functionalities, like `HasManyList::removeByID()`. They also added a new title component to the Gridfield, enhanced its add feature and added support for multiple column providers.
cmsphppowersframeworksilverstripe
silverstripe/silverstripe-cms
Feb 2012 - Oct 2019
Silverstripe CMS - this is a module for Silverstripe Framework rather than a standalone app. Use https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-installer/ to set this up.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 10 PRs, 26 comments in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the Silverstripe CMS codebase, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes. They implemented grid field functionalities, including JavaScript hooks, and addressed issues related to report administration. The user also improved the user interface, specifically switching edit and delete buttons on file gridfields and fixing breadcrumbs. Furthermore, the user improved code quality by fixing E_STRICT warnings and adding features for caching metadata.
cmsphpinstallerstandalonesilverstripe
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