Olive Beswick
Practice Lead - Software Engineering at Ministry of Social Development (MSD)
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolOlive Beswick is a Practice Lead - Software Engineering with nine years’ experience building back-end APIs, integrating third-party systems, and improving developer tooling to make teams more productive. Currently leading engineering practice at the Ministry of Social Development in Wellington, she blends hands-on development with architecture and process improvements to streamline delivery and developer experience. Her background as a Test Analyst informs a pragmatic quality-first approach—she moved from finding bugs to fixing their root causes and now champions accessibility and information architecture in product re‑designs. Notable work includes WCAG-driven overhauls and scaling Rails-based systems with AWS, ECS and Sidekiq to parallelize heavy workloads. She’s passionate about making it easier for teams to do good work and often focuses on tooling and patterns that reduce friction and increase enjoyment in shipping great customer experiences.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Exchange through the EF foundation, American Education, High School Exchange through the EF foundation, American Education at Valley Head High SchoolBachelor of Commerce (BCom), Information Systems and Management, Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Information Systems and Management at University of AucklandHigh School Diploma, History/Computer Science, High School Diploma, History/Computer Science at Bethlehem College
English
Github Skills (12)
pocketmine8
web-application6
marketing4
ruby-on-rails2
api-builder2
hotel-booking2
rails2
api2
rails-api2
coercion1
dry-rb1
ruby1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CitationNerded/banana_stand
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 5 branches in 9 days
CitationNerded/TimmysFirstRepository
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
test-reposvnverifymigrationcommit
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