# Ashley Sands

Ashley Sands is a remote worker on Himalayas, Senior Software Engineer at Nine Entertainment, based in Australia.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@ashleysands

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Senior Software Engineer at Nine Entertainment who modernised the VMS API and secured services supporting 9Now.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Australia |
| Authorized to work in | Australia |
| Salary expectations | 120k+ AUD |
| Job categories | Software Engineer, Engineering Manager |
| Skills | Software Architecture, Full Stack Web Development, API Modernization, Technical Leadership, Specification Driven Development, Cloud Infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, Production Reliability, Security Remediation, Incident Response, Mentoring Engineers, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Python |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/ashleysands |
| GitHub | https://github.com/ashleyjsands |

## About

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At Nine Entertainment, I owned and improved the Video Management System platform and surrounding Curation Tools services. I led a major VMS API modernisation, co-authoring RFCs and helping teams adopt a monorepo and shared engineering standards.

I also led the response to identified SQL-injection vulnerabilities in an internal VMS API supporting 9Now, and helped resolve a longstanding database-connection issue with an AWS DMS-based solution. On a greenfield project, I led specification-driven development using GitHub Copilot to turn Confluence content and AI conversations into committed specifications.
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## Experience

### Senior Software Engineer

Nine Entertainment. Mar 2022 - Oct 2026

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Owned and improved the Video Management System (VMS) platform and surrounding Curation Tools services. Led a major VMS API upgrade, acted as Engineering Manager, and improved operational health and team productivity.
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Skills: Copilot, Go, TypeScript, Node, React, NestJS, Next.js, TeamCity, Buildkite, PostgreSQL, New-Relic, Grafana, AWS, Terraform-OpenTofu, OpenTelemetry, Docker, Kubernetes, Snyk, Varnish, Cloudwatch, Elastic-Beanstalk, PagerDuty, Slack

### Senior Web Developer

iP Edge / eBay Australia. Jan 2016 - Mar 2022

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Worked on several greenfield projects when contracted out to eBay Australia, including a website for their Virtual Reality shopping experience. Improved code quality through code reviews and completed product features within budget for cost-sensitive clients.
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Skills: .NET-Core, C#, ASP.NET-Core, React, jQuery, OpenStack, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, TypeScript, Azure-Cosmos-DB, Azure-Functions, Cypress

### Sole Trader

Sandstorm Software. Jan 2010 - Dec 2015

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Completed numerous web development contracts for clients using C#, ASP.NET MVC, Python and Django.
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Skills: C#, ASP.NET-MVC, Python, Django

### Web Developer

Tropical Medical Training

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Worked as a Web Developer at Tropical Medical Training.
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### C# Software Engineer

Calxa

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Worked as a C# Software Engineer at Calxa.
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### Software Engineer

Code Valley

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Worked as a Software Engineer at Code Valley.
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## Education

### James Cook University

Bachelor of Information Technology, General Computing

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Bachelor of Information Technology with a major in General Computing.
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## Tech stack

- Kubernetes
- Jenkins
- PostgreSQL
- Django
- .NET Core
- Next.js
- ASP.NET Core
- Slack
- Terraform
- Cypress
- React
- jQuery
- JavaScript
- Python
- C#
- Go
- Clojure
- Rust
- PagerDuty
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
- OpenStack
- New Relic
- Confluence
- Azure Functions
- TypeScript
- Docker
- Varnish
- Buildkite
- TeamCity
- Snyk
- OpenTofu
- GitHub Copilot
- AWS

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