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arshadanwer

Senior software engineer in Wellington, NZ. Eleven years building enterprise web apps in Node, .NET, React, Vue. Lately the infrastructure they run on too. AWS with Terraform and Ansible, GitHub Actions pipelines. Internal CLI tools that replace brittle legacy scripts. The instinct hasn’t really changed. Build it properly, then make it dull to run.

currently at totara · open to senior roles

work

where i’ve been working

  1. Jan 2025 — Present

    DevOps Engineer — Platform & InfrastructureTotara

    AWS infrastructure standardised with Terraform + Ansible, the GitHub Actions release pipelines that replaced the legacy path-to-production, and internal Node / TypeScript CLI tooling that retired brittle scripts engineers had been working around.

  2. Feb 2020 — Jan 2025

    Front-End DeveloperTotara

    Reusable Vue component library with strong Jest coverage, GraphQL API consumption across the frontend, and strict WCAG 2.1 AA compliance held throughout the product suite.

  3. May 2019 — Jan 2020

    Senior Software EngineerQijang Technologies

    Architected a Warehouse Management System still supporting a growing client base, and built a modular React + TypeScript component library that pulled the team onto a shared foundation.

  4. Mar 2015 — May 2019

    Software DeveloperSEB — Nordic Corporate Bank

    Insurance advisory system the CEO showcased at the 2016 annual meeting as a stepping stone of innovation. Led an Angular 6 → React (TypeScript) migration and pushed .NET backend coverage past 85%.

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projects

selected projects

  1. _01

    Pixxellent

    A digital asset platform that started as a personal photo showcase and grew into curated stock for photography, video, and beyond. Contributor side is live in private beta.

    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • Fastify
    • PostgreSQL
    • Redis
    • RabbitMQ
    • AWS ECS
    • GitHub Actions

more projects landing through 2026

stack

tools of the trade

languages
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • C#
frontend
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Vue
  • Angular
  • GraphQL
  • Jest
  • Vitest
backend
  • Node.js
  • Fastify
  • .NET
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • RabbitMQ
infra
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • GitHub Actions

photography

things i’ve pointed a lens at

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thoughts

coming soon

a blog about building things that don’t break

Notes on platform engineering, the seam between front-end and infra, and the unglamorous discipline of making systems boring to operate. The first posts are drafting. Subscribe by email if you want a ping when the first lands.

contact

let’s build
something dull
to run.

open to senior / staff roles · remote-friendly

Happy to chat about platform engineering, the seam between front-end and infra, or whether your CI pipeline really needs that fourth caching layer.

contact@arshadanwer.com