Orion Edwards
Lead Software Engineer at Octopus Deploy
Waikato, New Zealand
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Top SchoolOrion Edwards is a Lead Software Engineer with 15 years’ experience designing and delivering robust, cloud-native and mobile solutions, currently leading engineering at Octopus Deploy from Waikato, New Zealand. He combines deep hands-on expertise in C#, C/C++, ASP.NET Core, and mobile (iOS/Android) development with a strong background in software architecture, test automation, and database design. Orion has a proven track record of leading and mentoring teams through platform transitions—most recently moving from enterprise security-focused mobile and cloud work at Gallagher to release orchestration at Octopus. Comfortable across Docker and AWS ecosystems, he brings pragmatic architecture choices that favor operability and testability. Beyond coding, he has routinely owned end-to-end delivery including installers, CI/test automation and cross-platform client/server systems, reflecting a rare breadth from low-level servers to consumer mobile apps.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at The University of Waikato
English
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Github Skills (200)
go-api10
multithreading10
ruby10
design-patterns10
visual-studio10
build-automation10
overriding10
wpf10
ruby-on-rails10
getter10
markdown10
rxswift10
reactive10
locking10
dotnet10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
borland/AzBackup
Jan 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 release, 24 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 3 months
borland/kdl-net
Jan 2021 - Oct 2021
A C# parser for the KDL document language
Contributions:2 releases, 16 commits, 2 PRs in 8 months
csharpparser
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