Taz Bruce
Senior Software Engineer at Kiwibank
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolTaz Bruce is a Senior Software Engineer with six years’ experience building platform capabilities that help teams design, publish, and operate APIs safely and at scale. Currently at Kiwibank, he focuses on developer experience, governance, and pragmatic platform enablement across Apollo GraphQL, Azure API Management, TypeScript, AWS, Kubernetes, OPA and .NET. He previously shaped platform best practices and internal tooling at BNZ, delivering solutions for secrets rotation, mTLS, Postgres integrations and a Spring Boot library for IBM MQ. Taz combines hands-on engineering with internal consulting, documentation and training—he’s as comfortable producing tutorials and libraries as he is designing policy-driven platforms. He cares about scaling people as much as systems, helping teams move faster without compromising security or reliability. Based in Wellington and grounded in a BSc in Computer Science and Information Systems, he also has experience tutoring tauira Māori in programming, reflecting a commitment to inclusive technical mentorship.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc Double Major in Computer Science and Information Systems, Bachelor of Science - BSc Double Major in Computer Science and Information Systems at Victoria University of WellingtonNational Certificate of Educational Achievement Level 3, National Certificate of Educational Achievement Level 3 at Horowhenua College
English, maori
Github Skills (45)
react-suspense10
java9
spring9
spring-boot9
firebase9
react8
react-query8
authentication8
spring-security8
redux8
react-hooks8
asynchronous7
makefile7
firestore7
database6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TazBruce/WellyWanders
Jul 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
TazBruce/Gradrr
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:206 commits, 115 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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