Senior backend engineer
Ledgerline Present
Wellington
Owns the settlement service. Introduced idempotent retries and a reconciliation job that closes the daily books unattended.
Tomas Ridley
Software developer
Backend developer — payments, queues and the boring parts that must not break
Wellington, New Zealand
About Me
I build and operate services that move money and messages. Go, PHP and Postgres, with a long-running interest in observability and honest error handling.
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Roles Held
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Skills
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Projects
Skills
Go
Advanced
PostgreSQL
Advanced
PHP
Expert
Distributed systems
Intermediate
Observability
Advanced
Experience
Software engineer
Harbour Freight Wellington
Built the dispatch API and the driver app’s offline queue.
Projects
Reconciliation service
2024Author
A nightly job that compares ledgers, explains every difference and pages a human only when it cannot.
Queue replay tool
2023Author
Replays a dead-letter queue in order with a dry run, so a bad deploy is reversible.
Education
Bachelor of Science
Victoria University of Wellington
Computer science
2017
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2023Amazon Web Services
Contact
Email
developer@example.com
Location
Wellington, New Zealand
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Backend developer — payments, queues and the boring parts that must not break
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