Summary
Wentao Kuang is a Senior Software Developer based in Wellington with 11 years' experience building data-intensive, full‑stack applications and hands-on expertise in AWS serverless and event-driven architectures. He has led geospatial and basemap initiatives at Land Information New Zealand, designing ETL pipelines and serving vector/raster data via S3, Lambda and DynamoDB, and was part of an NZ Open Source Awards–winning effort. Comfortable across Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Go and infrastructure-as-code (CDK, Terraform), he blends DevOps and developer responsibilities to ship resilient production systems. Wentao’s background includes team leadership on enterprise Java stacks and practical cloud media delivery work at a university, reflecting a pragmatic focus on operational reliability and innovation. Notably, he allocates deliberate time to evaluate new tools and prototypes, turning experimental ideas into maintainable products.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Merit, Master's degree, Computer Science, Merit at Victoria University of Wellington
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Liaoning University
English, Chinese