Kierran Mcpherson
Senior Engineer at Xero
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolKierran Mcpherson is a Senior Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and automating backend systems, currently focused on cloud-native infrastructure at Xero. He spends his days applying Golang, Terraform, AWS, and Kubernetes alongside strong SRE/DevOps practices, having progressed internally from Automation Engineer to Senior Engineer. His background includes substantial Ruby and Chef work, with additional exposure to C#, C++ and SQL, giving him cross-stack fluency from scripting to systems programming. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, he combines practical operational experience with a curiosity for tooling and platform reliability that helps teams ship resilient services. Colleagues know him for steadily upskilling into cloud infrastructure while keeping a pragmatic engineering mindset.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Aparima CollegeBachelor of Information Technology, Information Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology, Information Technology at Otago Polytechnic
Github Skills (125)
sumo10
k8s10
charts10
cloudwatch-alarms10
kubernetes-deployment10
helm10
logic10
kubernetes10
cookbook10
teamcity10
docker10
virtualization9
vagrant9
mechanism9
ruby9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
KierranM/teamcity-awsrole-plugin
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
Assume AWS IAM roles from TeamCity builds securely
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 5 commits in 9 months
iam-rolesteamcitybuildsiamaws-iam
KierranM/deadmanswatch
Nov 2018 - Nov 2021
CloudWatch Alarms from Prometheus DeadMansSwitch alerts
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 16 commits in 3 years
promqlalertscloudwatchalarmsprometheus
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