drift

I build software people depend on.

I'm Justin Moore, a senior software engineer and independent mobile-app developer in Pukerua Bay. For 25 years I've helped teams ship and modernise production systems. I also build Drift's own mobile apps for everyday problems. Available on contract.

See my contract workSee the mobile apps

Mobile apps

Products I design, build, and run.

drfty and Home Again are independent Drift products. I take them from idea and interface design through development, store release, and production support.

Live

drfty

Know whether it's a yeah or a nah at more than 900 NZ beaches, rivers, and lakes.

Apple Watch · iPhone · Wear OS · SiriView drfty
Live

Home Again

Live departures, saved routes, and stop alarms without pulling my phone out.

Apple Watch · iPhone · Android · Wear OSView Home Again

How I work

Built to hand over, not to hang around.

From idea to production

Product discovery, prototypes, services, and apps. I stay close to the problem and carry the work through testing, release, and production support.

Capability stays in-house

I build with your team, not around them. When the contract ends you own the system, the tests, and the pipeline. No vendor lock, no black box.

Boring where it counts

CI/CD, observability, and architecture you can still change in a year. You pay for a system over its life, not at go-live.

Selected contract work

Systems people actually depend on.

Tech Lead / Senior DeveloperMar 2023 – present

Wellington City Council

  • Part of the team behind Whakatutuki, the council’s new customer portal, and the services launched on it.
  • Led an AI-assisted migration of a legacy Java system to .NET.
  • Built Next.js frontends, AWS infrastructure with Pulumi, and the CI/CD to ship them.
Team LeadSep 2020 – Oct 2022

Code Worldwide (Omnicom) · Mercedes-Benz

  • Led the Systems Excellence team for the Mercedes-Benz online showroom.
  • Migrated .NET Framework APIs to containerised .NET Core microservices on AWS Fargate.
Lead DeveloperMar 2018 – Aug 2020

Cash Processing Solutions · US Federal Reserve Bank

  • Led distributed-system development for the US Federal Reserve Bank fleet-management platform.
  • Built .NET Core microservices, Angular frontends, RabbitMQ workflows, and Docker-on-Azure delivery paths.
Earlier

Wealth and platform work at DST Bluedoor, Old Mutual Wealth (now Quilter), and QJumpers.

Technical range

.NET CoreTypeScriptNext.jsReactSwiftSwiftUIKotlinJetpack ComposewatchOSWear OSAWSPulumiGitHub ActionsPlaywrightDockerPostgreSQLGitHub CopilotClaudeCodex

Building something practical?

Let's make it real. Available for contract engagements in Wellington or remotely.Discuss a contract