Dion Brown
Staff Engineer at CONQA
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolDion Brown is a Staff Engineer in Auckland with 25 years of analyst/programmer experience and a decade of recent cloud-focused delivery at companies like Xero and CONQA. He is pragmatic and dependable, known for turning fragile, high-traffic systems into resilient services while mentoring peers and juniors. A certified AWS expert (including Architect Professional, DevOps Pro and Security Specialty), he drives migrations from legacy platforms to serverless architectures—most recently moving Elastic Beanstalk workloads to Lambda function URLs. Dion combines hands-on coding across front- and back-end stacks with a disciplined CI/CD and security-first mindset, applying the AWS Well-Architected Framework to real projects. He has a track record of breaking monoliths into micro-sites and integrating EventBridge-based analytics pipelines to improve observability. Studying for certifications is his preferred way to learn, which he then uses to influence architecture and operational practices day-to-day.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at The University of Auckland
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Github Skills (20)
cli-tools6
nuget-package6
sql-server6
sql6
programming-language6
smo6
tsql6
dotnet-cli5
testing4
dotnet-core3
cli3
dotnet3
nuget3
csharp3
package-management2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
DionBrNz/LambaCdkPipeline
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
Contributions:20 commits in 21 days
dotnet/cli
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
The .NET Core command-line (CLI) tools, used for building .NET Core apps and libraries through your development flow (compiling, NuGet package management, running, testing, ...).
Contributions:2 comments in 1 day
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