Dan Whitfield
Solutions Architect at Bachcare, The Holiday Home Company
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Whitfield is an AWS-certified Solutions Architect and hands-on engineering leader with nine years of experience designing and shipping cloud-native microservices and user interfaces from New Zealand. Currently leading architecture and a team of developers at Bachcare, he drives API design, CDK best practices and cross-team migrations—having led a major platform migration after acquisition. His background blends full-stack development (Java, React) with operational excellence from roles at Orion Health and Amazon, where he implemented performance testing, CI/CD and service-level monitoring. Known for growing technical teams and codifying standards, he pairs pragmatic software design with a knack for translating stakeholder roadmaps into scalable AWS solutions. An often-unspoken strength is his track record of steering teams through platform pivots while preserving delivery velocity and product integrity.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Distinction, Website Design, Distinction, Website Design at Diploma in Website Design (Distinction)Ordsall Hall Comprehensive School
English
Github Skills (6)
sparql7
vtl5
visual-studio-code5
javascript3
unit-test3
resolvers1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
danwhitfield/sparql-executor-vscode-extension
Nov 2019 - Dec 2021
Execute SPARQL queries from Visual Studio Code
Contributions:12 commits, 13 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 1 month
sparqlvisual-studio-code
danwhitfield/local-api-gateway
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Dockerized SAM local api-gateway
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
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