Xav Paice
Senior Manager at Replicated
French Farm, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Top SchoolXav Paice is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale cloud and platform services, now managing globally distributed software teams at Replicated. He combines deep reliability and DevOps expertise—rooted in OpenStack, Kubernetes, Juju and automation tooling—with a talent for shaping high-performing, cross-timezone teams that deliver customer reliability and product-focused outcomes. Xav has repeatedly moved from individual contributor to tech lead and manager roles at Canonical and Catalyst, driving deployment tooling, observability, and the first NZ public cloud while keeping developer velocity high. He is an early advocate for integrating AI into engineering workflows to accelerate delivery and reduce friction across support, product and professional services. Based in rural Canterbury, New Zealand, he brings a pragmatic, mentorship-first approach that balances psychological safety with rigorous operational standards. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex operational challenges into repeatable, low-risk products and processes.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Diploma Business Administration and Management General, Postgraduate Diploma Business Administration and Management General at University of Auckland
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Github Skills (125)
telegraf10
xpath10
monitoring10
golang10
json10
kubernetes10
kafka10
go10
agent10
installer10
preflight10
time-series10
overlays10
modbus10
kubernetes-cluster9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
xavpaice/layer-index
Jan 2018 - Dec 2021
Index of layers for building charms
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 10 months
charmslayersindex
canonical/charm-openstack-dashboard
Aug 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
openshiftjujukubernetescharmopenstack
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