Ian Rainford
Senior Developer Technical Lead at Land Information New Zealand
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Rainford is a Senior Developer Technical Lead with 15+ years of hands-on experience modernizing mission-critical systems across banking, insurance and government, currently leading Kotlin Spring Boot microservices for Land Information New Zealand. He brings deep Java expertise (Oracle-certified) and a strong full-stack skill set—TypeScript/React frontends, Postgres/Informix backends, and containerized CI/CD pipelines to AWS and Azure—alongside practical DevOps with OpenShift, Docker and Kubernetes. Ian has a track record of delivering large-scale enterprise integrations (Guidewire, teller systems, and BNZ digital platforms) and improving operational tooling through instrumentation, logging and static analysis. He combines rigorous engineering discipline with a background in electronics and computer engineering, and is comfortable moving between low-level systems and cloud-native architectures. Notably, his career blends long-term institutional knowledge with frequent contract roles, making him adept at rapidly assimilating domain context and driving pragmatic modernization.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Zero To Mastery AcademyStandish High SchoolBeng (Hons), Electronics and Computer Engineering, Beng (Hons), Electronics and Computer Engineering at University of Central LancashireOND level4, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, OND level4, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Wigan college of Technology
Github Skills (46)
testing9
github-desktop9
typescript9
angular8
react8
continuous-integration8
vue8
webpack8
javascript8
electron8
react-native8
continuous-deployment7
svelte7
git7
vite7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Rainfords/advent-of-code
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
Rainfords/mosh-game-hub
May 2023 - Aug 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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