Janella Espinas-ray
Senior Engineer at Upstock
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJanella Espinas-ray is a senior software engineer and people leader with over a decade of experience shipping production systems across startups and large-scale companies. She combines hands-on expertise in C#, .NET Core, Typescript, Rust, and AWS with a pragmatic focus on shipping customer value—helping products go from 0-to-1 and companies scale from dozens to thousands of people. Known for reducing operational friction, she has driven measurable wins like 40% faster search responses, significant AWS cost optimisations, and company-wide observability improvements. Janella excels at navigating ambiguity, turning stalled analysis into shipped features, and building local dev experiences that get new engineers productive in days. She pairs technical coaching and hiring with incident leadership and SLO-driven accountability to raise team reliability and autonomy. Based in Wellington, she brings a thoughtful mix of long-term maintainability and startup velocity, plus an appetite for picking up whatever tech the job needs.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Software Engineering at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (17)
redis-cache7
caching6
stackexchange6
logging5
sdk5
dotnet5
tagging5
redis5
monitoring4
redis-client4
python4
telemetry4
azure3
csharp3
distributed-tracing2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
janella/engineering-management
Apr 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
janella/janella.github.io
Feb 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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