ALISTAIR MCINTYRE

FULL STACK ENGINEER

ABOUT ME

I am a 30 year old resident of Christchurch, passionate about technology, mentoring and solving real world problems.

I have the unique experience of having spent time in both development and operations, giving me a holistic view of complex systems, capable of implementation and troubleshooting at every level.

EDUCATION

NOV '12NOV '17

BSc. Computer Science

University of Canterbury
FEB '09DEC '09

Diploma in Web Development

Natcoll Design Technology

EXPERIENCE

APR '19NOW

GIS Platform Engineer

Catalyst IT Ltd
  • Responsible for creation, deployment and management of a GIS platform built out of existing Open Source components.
  • Championed a modern approach, utilising Containerisation, Kubernetes and Continuous Integration and Delivery to automate deployment and system management processes.
  • Developed a product within a company that typically sells it's resources in a services capacity. This required a slightly different approach to development and requirements.
  • Mentored other team members and endeavoured to create an inclusive team culture, working primarily to the 5 ideals from The Unicorn Project (by Gene Kim)
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Cloud
  • Gitlab CI/CD
  • Python
  • Helm
JUL '18JUL '19

Junior Systems Administrator

Catalyst IT Ltd
  • Responsible for monitoring, improvement and maintenance of multiple systems across the South Island Catalyst team.
  • Gained proficiency with cloud computing concepts, configuration management, security, networking and an understanding of how to manage systems.
  • Responsible for migration and deployment of a microservice architecture application from Ansible to Puppet to bring it in line with company best practices. This work was later successfully re-used on future projects by other team members.
  • Puppet
  • Ansible
  • Networking
  • Database Administration
  • Monitoring
JAN '18JUL '18

Junior Software Developer

Croplogic
  • Part of a small development team at an exciting Agritech company.
  • Built 2 cross-platform mobile applications, one customer-facing to track the data from their farms, and another to enable agronomists to easily retrieve and update data in the field.
  • Dart
  • Flutter
  • Firebase
  • Objective-C
  • Python
References will be supplied upon Request.