Summary
Samdanae Imran is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years’ experience architecting cloud-native, API-first solutions primarily on the Microsoft stack, currently at Octopus Deploy in Auckland. He has a strong track record of modernising platforms—introducing OpenAPI-driven designs, trunk-based development, IaC with Pulumi/Terraform, and automated CI/CD—to improve developer experience and delivery metrics. Past roles include leading API and domain-driven projects in insurance and proptech, delivering 100% unit-tested, maintainable systems and driving organisational change around agile practices. He combines hands-on engineering with mentorship and a pragmatic focus on observability, feature flagging, and microservices patterns. An early adopter of tooling like Azure Functions, Docker, and Nx monorepos, he’s as comfortable shaping developer workflows as he is building robust REST APIs.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Mount Albert Grammar School
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Software Engineering at University of Auckland
English, Bengali