Derek Wilson
Mobile Developer at Bank of New Zealand
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Wilson is a seasoned mobile developer with 15+ years building and scaling consumer and enterprise software across Android, .NET and web platforms. Currently shaping BNZ’s mobile architecture, he pioneered modularizing an app into dynamic feature modules to enable scalable, cross-platform delivery while also shipping payment and push-notification features. His background spans senior roles at Xero, Swinton and PwC where he improved architecture through IoC, MVP/repository patterns and led performance optimizations for high-traffic billing and public-facing systems. Comfortable across the full lifecycle, he blends hands-on Kotlin/Java and Spring work with strong C#/ASP.NET experience and disciplined BDD/TDD practices. Based in Wellington, he pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with a long track record of adapting to new technologies and driving measurable product outcomes. Colleagues note his knack for turning legacy codebases into maintainable platforms that accelerate feature velocity.
15 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) 2:1, Computing and Chemistry, BSc (Hons) 2:1, Computing and Chemistry at The Manchester Metropolitan University
Github Skills (11)
playlists10
podcast10
android7
android-developers6
api4
csharp3
dotnet3
smartwatch3
stylish2
face2
pebble2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
derekwilson/PodcastUtilities
Oct 2010 - Jan 2023
PodcastUtilities are a set of utilities designed to help manage digital media on removable drives. Including utilities to download podcasts, sync podcasts and generate playlists.
Contributions:350 commits, 9 PRs, 347 pushes in 12 years 5 months
removable-drivessyncpodcastdownload-podcastsplaylists
derekwilson/derekwilson.github.io
Jan 2017 - Apr 2025
Contributions:223 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
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