Ryan Achten
Senior Engineer at Xero
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolRyan Achten is a Senior Engineer based in Wellington, New Zealand with nine years’ experience designing and building full-stack web and cloud systems. He currently leads full-stack development at Xero, working across .NET monoliths and modern .NET microservices, TypeScript/React SPAs, and AWS infrastructure automated with Terraform and CI/CD tooling. His background blends strong frontend craft—React, Redux, build pipelines—with backend and infrastructure work, reflecting a designer’s attention to user-facing detail and an engineer’s focus on reliable delivery. Prior roles span UX-focused development, tutoring in physical computing and media, and innovation research, giving him a rare mix of design thinking and production engineering. Known for pragmatic system design and shipping end-to-end solutions, he brings both hands-on implementation skills and experience shaping developer tooling and pipelines.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Design Innovation, Media Design, Master of Design Innovation, Media Design at Victoria University of WellingtonBachelor of Design, Communication Design, achieved with Distinction, Bachelor of Design, Communication Design, achieved with Distinction at Otago PolytechnicAshburton College
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Github Skills (61)
mongodb8
mongodb-driver8
mongodb-database8
p5js8
twitter8
javascript7
redux7
dotnet7
api7
react7
docker7
html7
rest-api7
e-mail6
video-capture6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ryanachten/Oscil
Apr 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 418 commits, 219 pushes in 5 years 8 months
ryanachten/achtenio
Jan 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:134 commits, 83 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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