Grace Grimwood
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolGrace Grimwood is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years' experience building and supporting production systems across DevOps, private cloud, and on-prem environments. Skilled in Python and JavaScript, she bridges backend, frontend and infrastructure work—shipping multithreaded applications, CI/CD pipelines, and responsive UIs using frameworks from React/Angular to Django. A go-to Git expert comfortable on Linux and Windows, she has practical experience with Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift and a wide array of on-prem CI/CD tooling. Her career spans government and enterprise roles including DevOps at New Zealand Customs, platform work at Red Hat, and a current senior engineering position at IBM, demonstrating both operational rigor and software design instincts. Self-taught and self-managing, she also brings a history of mentoring and curriculum work, reflecting an appetite for knowledge transfer as well as hands-on delivery.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Victoria University of WellingtonNCEA Level 3, NCEA Level 2, NCEA Level 1 with Merit in Mathematics and English, NCEA Level 3, NCEA Level 2, NCEA Level 1 with Merit in Mathematics and English at Motueka High School
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Github Skills (58)
data-stream10
python10
big-data10
kafka10
proxy10
java10
scala10
sql10
apache-kafka10
network-analysis9
network-visualization9
messaging9
apache-flink9
kafka-connect9
pcap9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
grace-grimwood/grace-grimwood.github.io
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
A personal GitHub Pages site
Contributions:12 PRs, 12 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 5 months
jekyllgithub-pages-site
gracegrimwood/kroxylicious
May 2023 - Jan 2026
An open-source network proxy framework for Apache Kafka
Contributions:1 release, 173 pushes, 24 branches in 2 years 7 months
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