Neal Blomfield
Principal Software Engineer at Marketplacer
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolNeal Blomfield is a Principal Software Engineer based in Wellington, New Zealand, with over 12 years of experience designing and delivering resilient backend systems and platform upgrades. He combines hands-on engineering—especially in Ruby on Rails and .NET—with mentoring and technical leadership to uplift teams and drive cross-team solutions. Neal has led migrations and platform modernisations (Ruby, Postgres, MySQL, Node.js to .NET Core/React) and built monitoring tooling to make operations and diagnostics straightforward. He also has practical experience designing message-based architectures and contributed serialization/versioning enhancements to the widely used EasyNetQ RabbitMQ client. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solution design, release automation and clear standards that reduce operational friction. Outside the obvious, he actively shapes onboarding and mentoring programs, ensuring technical improvements are sustained through better team capability.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Information Systems, Information Systems, Bachelor of Applied Information Systems, Information Systems at Universal College of Learning
English
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Github Skills (19)
messaging10
net10
dotnet10
data-serialization10
serialization10
rabbitmq10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
dotnet-new9
asp-net-mvc9
iis-express9
domain-driven-design6
wcf6
publish6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
EasyNetQ/EasyNetQ
May 2014 - May 2014
An easy to use .NET API for RabbitMQ
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 4 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Neal primarily focused on enhancing the existing message serialization and deserialization capabilities within the EasyNetQ framework, as evidenced by modifications to the core components. This involved extracting existing message serialization logic into a single abstraction to facilitate message versioning. Additionally, the user implemented and tested versioning support, including a new strategy for publishing exchanges and a strategy for message serialization, demonstrating an understanding of messaging systems and serialization techniques.
dotnetrabbitmqmessagingdotnet-core
randomcodenz/rails_deprecation_log_analyser
Jul 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:16 PRs, 40 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 4 months
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