Summary
Ian Beardslee is a Senior Development Operations Analyst with 14 years of professional experience and over 25 years in IT, currently maintaining critical trading and clearing infrastructure for NZX and New Zealand financial markets. He excels at connecting tools, systems, and people—designing, testing and operating resilient production and disaster-recovery environments while delivering technical solutions for securities and derivatives initiatives. Comfortable from desktop to server, Ian blends hands-on systems architecture (Linux, Proxmox, Postfix, Nextcloud, Home Assistant) with project and team leadership gained across roles in Catalyst and the public sector. He keeps his skills sharp through personal lab work as a self-employed system architect, running a home cloud and smart-home stack, which informs practical, security-minded operational decisions. Based in Lower Hutt, Ian pairs curiosity about new technologies with a track record of turning complex requirements into reliable, auditable systems.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Wairarapa Community Polytechnic