Peter Sellars
Principal DevOps Engineer Consultant at Auto & General Australia
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolPeter Sellars is a Principal DevOps Engineer and consultant based in Auckland with 15+ years of commercial IT experience and a strong focus on building resilient, automated cloud platforms. He specialises in Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps automation, having migrated and standardised IaC across multiple organisations using Terraform, Terragrunt and reusable module patterns. Comfortable alternating between leadership and hands-on delivery, he drives measurable business value through systems thinking, metrics-driven development, and a “build quality in” mindset. His cross-industry experience spans payments, media, insurance, telecoms and agriculture, and he’s delivered platform work that supports microservices and Kafka-based architectures. A seasoned practitioner and community contributor, he has presented at DevOpsDays NZ and authored technical writing earlier in his career, reflecting a long-standing commitment to sharing practical engineering knowledge.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Swedish, English Literature, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Swedish, English Literature at University Of Wales, LampeterA Level and GCSE, English Literature, Political History and German, A Level and GCSE, English Literature, Political History and German at South Devon CollegeMaster of Science - MS, Information Technology, Master of Science - MS, Information Technology at De Montfort University
English, Swedish
Github Skills (59)
docker10
ecosystem10
golang10
container9
moby9
rspec9
graph9
assemble9
aws9
go9
docker-machine8
multiarch8
terraform8
npm8
docker-image7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
petersellars/petersellars
Jul 2022 - Dec 2024
Personal Profile
Contributions:1 review, 13 PRs, 34 pushes in 2 years 5 months
petersellars/presentations
Sep 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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