Grace Grimwood
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolGrace Grimwood is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years' experience building and supporting production systems across DevOps, private cloud, and on-prem environments. Skilled in Python and JavaScript, she bridges backend, frontend and infrastructure work—shipping multithreaded applications, CI/CD pipelines, and responsive UIs using frameworks from React/Angular to Django. A go-to Git expert comfortable on Linux and Windows, she has practical experience with Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift and a wide array of on-prem CI/CD tooling. Her career spans government and enterprise roles including DevOps at New Zealand Customs, platform work at Red Hat, and a current senior engineering position at IBM, demonstrating both operational rigor and software design instincts. Self-taught and self-managing, she also brings a history of mentoring and curriculum work, reflecting an appetite for knowledge transfer as well as hands-on delivery.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Victoria University of WellingtonNCEA Level 3, NCEA Level 2, NCEA Level 1 with Merit in Mathematics and English, NCEA Level 3, NCEA Level 2, NCEA Level 1 with Merit in Mathematics and English at Motueka High School
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Github Skills (72)
data-stream10
messaging10
python10
proxy10
data-streams10
big-data10
kubernetes-operator10
kafka-streams10
sql10
kafka-connect10
kafka10
apache10
java10
scala10
apache-kafka10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gracegrimwood/kroxylicious
May 2023 - Dec 2024
An open-source network proxy framework for Apache Kafka
Contributions:1 release, 155 pushes, 23 branches in 1 year 7 months
gracegrimwood/kroxylicious.github.io
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
kroxylicious.io org page
Contributions:4 PRs, 115 pushes, 30 branches in 1 year 6 months
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