Gift Hove
Senior Contract Engineer at Woolworths Group
Auckland, Auckland, Australia
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Top SchoolGift Hove is a Senior Contract Engineer with a decade of experience designing and building distributed .NET and Azure systems across banking, retail and aviation. He specializes in event-driven and domain-driven architectures that integrate multiple upstream systems without tight coupling, and focuses on making systems simpler, resilient and easy for other engineers to work with. Gift has taken increasing ownership of system design—defining domain boundaries, shaping service interactions, and producing architectures teams can evolve rather than work around. His technical toolkit spans C#, .NET, Azure (Service Bus, Functions, AKS), GraphQL, gRPC, SQL Server and Terraform, with frontend experience in React, TypeScript and Angular. He regularly uses AI-augmented engineering for architecture analysis and large-scale refactors, bringing a pragmatic mix of automation and judgment to complex migrations and integrations. Based in Auckland and currently contracting at Woolworths Group, he combines hands-on delivery with a track record of measurable improvements, such as significant performance gains from pragmatic cleanup and consolidation work.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Data Science, Master's degree, Data Science at University of OtagoInformation and Knowledge Management, Information Systems and Knowledge Management, Information and Knowledge Management, Information Systems and Knowledge Management at Stellenbosch UniversitySt Johns High SchoolComp Science/Software Engineering, Software, Comp Science/Software Engineering, Software at Solusi University
English
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Github Skills (19)
sdk8
matching7
cli6
csharp6
mocking6
dotnet6
testing6
templating5
visual-studio5
tdd5
mock-server5
mockwebserver5
docker5
api4
stubbing4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gifthove/conference-registration
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes in 3 months
gifthove/CATINREVServiceRepo
Jun 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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