Available for contract
Justin Moore
AI-first engineer. Tech lead. 25 years building things that work.
I don't just use AI tools — I architect agentic workflows that let small teams punch well above their weight. Currently contracting at Wellington City Council, based in Pukerua Bay, Wellington.
What I do
Agentic AI Development
Orchestrating teams of agents, progressive skills frameworks, AI-assisted delivery at a fraction of traditional cost.
Tech Leadership
Leading teams, setting standards, championing quality through E2E testing, CI/CD, and DevOps culture.
Full-Stack Delivery
.NET, Next.js, React, TypeScript front-to-back, with AWS and Pulumi for infrastructure.
Featured project
drfty 🌊
Apple Watch · iPhone · Wear OS · Siri
Real-time NZ swim site water quality — 900+ beaches, rivers and lakes from LAWA, on your wrist. Built with no prior watchOS or SwiftUI knowledge using AI-first development.
Recent work
Wellington City Council
- Led AI-assisted .NET port of a legacy Java system, delivered at a fraction of the externally-quoted cost using GitHub Copilot.
- Delivered Next.js frontends and AWS infrastructure (Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS) with Pulumi IaC and GitHub Actions.
- Championed E2E testing and agentic AI workflows — orchestrating agent teams, building a progressive skills framework, shipping a code-reviewer agent and exploratory tester.
- Core contributor to the WCC citizen portal.
Code Worldwide (Omnicom) · Mercedes-Benz
- Led Systems Excellence team for the Mercedes-Benz online showroom.
- Migrated .NET Framework APIs to containerised .NET Core microservices on AWS Fargate with Terraform.
Cash Processing Solutions
- Led distributed system development for the US Federal Reserve Bank fleet management platform.
- .NET Core microservices, Angular, RabbitMQ, Docker on Azure.
Stack
Let's work together.
Available for contract engagements in Wellington and remote.
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