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Hi, I’m Aaron Shewkani, a Senior Software Engineer and Platform Engineer based in Wellington, New Zealand. I bring a decade of experience building scalable, secure distributed systems across Atlassian, Xero, IAG, and SBS Bank, with a strong focus on microservices, CI/CD, and cloud-native architecture. I’ve led multi-quarter, cross-functional initiatives that unify development and operations, ship reliable developer platforms, and improve incident response and on-call resilience. I enjoy mentoring engineers and collaborating with product teams to deliver measurable business impact.…Hi, I’m Aaron Shewkani, a Senior Software Engineer and Platform Engineer based in Wellington, New Zealand. I bring a decade of experience building scalable, secure distributed systems across Atlassian, Xero, IAG, and SBS Bank, with a strong focus on microservices, CI/CD, and cloud-native architecture. I’ve led multi-quarter, cross-functional initiatives that unify development and operations, ship reliable developer platforms, and improve incident response and on-call resilience. I enjoy mentoring engineers and collaborating with product teams to deliver measurable business impact.

Aaron Shewkani

Full Stack Developer, DevOps Developer, Cloud Developer, +2

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Hi, I’m Aaron Shewkani, a Senior Software Engineer and Platform Engineer based in Wellington, New Zealand. I bring a decade of experience building scalable, secure distributed systems across Atlassian, Xero, IAG, and SBS Bank, with a strong focus on microservices, CI/CD, and cloud-native architecture. I’ve led multi-quarter, cross-functional initiatives that unify development and operations, ship reliable developer platforms, and improve incident response and on-call resilience. I enjoy mentoring engineers and collaborating with product teams to deliver measurable business impact.…Hi, I’m Aaron Shewkani, a Senior Software Engineer and Platform Engineer based in Wellington, New Zealand. I bring a decade of experience building scalable, secure distributed systems across Atlassian, Xero, IAG, and SBS Bank, with a strong focus on microservices, CI/CD, and cloud-native architecture. I’ve led multi-quarter, cross-functional initiatives that unify development and operations, ship reliable developer platforms, and improve incident response and on-call resilience. I enjoy mentoring engineers and collaborating with product teams to deliver measurable business impact.

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Hi, I’m Aaron Shewkani, a Senior Software Engineer and Platform Engineer based in Wellington, New Zealand. I bring a decade of experience building scalable, secure distributed systems across Atlassian, Xero, IAG, and SBS Bank, with a strong focus on microservices, CI/CD, and cloud-native architecture.

I’ve led multi-quarter, cross-functional initiatives that unify development and operations, ship reliable developer platforms, and improve incident response and on-call resilience. I enjoy mentoring engineers and collaborating with product teams to deliver measurable business impact.

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Work Experience

Analyst Programmer at SBS Bank NZ

January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2017

Developed core banking integrations connecting SBS with partner banks and fintechs; contributed to CRM features using JADE Software NZ and .NET backend APIs; provided on-call and production support.

Full Stack Developer at Arthur Driley & Co

January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2018

Engineered front-end and back-end applications for government and council teams across New Zealand; built data models, integrated reporting tools, and managed production deployments and application support.

Specialist Developer, Integration Services at Insurance Australia Group

January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2020

Led migration of legacy banking infrastructure to modern microservices; championed Infrastructure as Code adoption, cost optimization, and CI/CD pipelines; built security protocols and ephemeral environments enabling IaC.

Specialist Developer, DevOps & Automation at Insurance Australia Group

January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2021

Led organization-wide IaC adoption; developed CI/CD pipelines, security tooling, and automation to improve release velocity and reliability.

Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead, Accounting and Reporting at Xero

January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2023

Led a major initiative to codify legacy AWS infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation; migrated 6 .NET Framework monoliths to containerized .NET Core microservices on Kubernetes; architected end-to-end CI/CD and built reusable gold paths to accelerate delivery; led on-call and production reliability.

Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering at Atlassian

January 1, 2023 - Present

Designed and led cross-cloud capabilities enabling AWS–GCP communication for 600+ services; onboarding Jira and Confluence; led multi-quarter cross-team RFCs to low-level component designs; established end-to-end CI/CD and observed security; served as Scrum Master for 18 months and mentored engineers; helped grow the DevOps Community of Practice.