AI-assisted development
Helped introduce AI-assisted development with Claude (Claude Code) into the squad's day-to-day workflow, speeding up delivery across the Kotlin/Spring Boot and TypeScript/React codebase.
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Ian Rainford
Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead
Senior engineer and technical lead with 25+ years across banking, telecommunications and government, building Kotlin/Spring Boot and TypeScript/React systems on AWS.
Highlights
AI-assisted development, with humans in the loop
Custom Claude skills and workflow automation
Designed and built custom Claude skills (reusable, version-controlled instruction packages) that encode team workflows, so routine tasks run the same way for everyone.
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Senior engineer with 25+ years across banking, telecommunications and government, and 18+ years on the JVM (Java, plus 5+ years of Kotlin). Currently Technical Lead on the Landonline modernisation at Land Information New Zealand, building Kotlin/Spring Boot microservices and TypeScript/React front ends on AWS for a system that processes 500,000+ property transactions a year. Helped introduce Claude-based AI-assisted development to the team, with strong results.
Experienced in regulated, high-availability environments: delivered a BNZ Trade Finance re-platform to OpenShift with 100% uptime since go-live, and led a rewrite that avoided about USD 700,000 in third-party licensing. Works well in scaled agile (SAFe) teams, mentors developers, and makes sound technical decisions with product and business stakeholders.
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