About

Who We Are


Our Vision

We are a spin-off for the development capability of MediaSculpt focusing on cloud native, devops and AI. We provide AWS Partner and software development services for global customers at different lifecycle phases ranging from start up to enterprise / corporate / government.

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Our History

MediaSculpt have been building and deploying enterprise applications since 2001. We've passed compliance audits and scaled applications globally on fixed annual budgets. Koan, the wisdom puzzle, spun out in 2020, moving head office in 2021 to Wellington

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"Enterprise Software. "

Our Purpose

Build, secure and scale enteprise systems, working with businesses, global businesses, corporates, government across many sectors.

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  • "Security, Data Insight, Code Quality"

Partnership

Why Choose Us

AWS Partner DevOps, DevSecOps speciality. An alternative to a) large development companies b) low quality offshore development companies, c) full internal IT team.

Quality

Devops best practice. Audit level quality standards.

Cost

Fixed costs during each phase / budget period

Experience

18 years of business product development experience. AWS Partner and AWS Certified

Return

Increased ROI / Time to benefit.

Scalable

Cloud IoC (Infrastructure as Code) deployment guarantees security and future scale

Secure

High security, compliant environments

Communication

How we think


Plan

Kanban.

Innovate

Understand and share project/product vision, quality / users first, innovate

Prototype

Prototyping difficult tech problems early on reduces timeline uncertainty.

Reuse

Well documented and supported frameworks/ components reduce development time.

Share

Shared goals, responsibility, risk, vision produces great results

Communicate

Early feedback helps discover missing requirements.

Senior Leadership


Gareth Lawrence CE

18+ years all aspects of technology, prior CTO global corporation

Will Robertson DevOps Practice Lead

Prior Senior Google

Tobias GerschnerHead of Engineering

Ex-NZDF, Ex-CultureAmp

Steph Craig Head of People and Delivery

Prior Spark

Ray BachertPrincipal Consultant

7xAWS Certified Cloud Strategy and Security

Tony Beveridge Team Lead

Senior Manager, Modernization, Development

Cloud Native / Development / Modernization


Donald Gordon Principal Engineer

ex-Xero

Daniel Hope Principal Engineer

ex-Transpower

Karthik VijayPrincipal Engineer

Ex-BNZ, 7x AWS Certified

Richard Collins Senior Developer

25 years Development

Minh Ha Cloud Native Lead

ex-Loyalty Senior Cloud Native

Adam Lawrence Board of Directors

AI / LLM Practice Lead

Luna Underwood Mobile Lead

Mobile and Front End

Ilija Jankovinc Senior Mobile

Flutter Guru

Clark Ragay Cloud Support Lead

Managed Services, Account Manager

Consultants / Devops


Michael Watikson Cloud Engineer

AWS Ceritified Cloud Engineer

Allen Mitchell Cloud Engineer

AWS Ceritfied Devops

Dr Willam Nash Data Science Lead

Phd, AWS ML Certified, Data Analytics and ML/AI Lead

Keith Voysey Senior Developer

ex-FMG

Steve Pavarno Senior Developer

Guru

Miles Thompson AI

Former CreditSights CTO

David Pando DevSecOps

AWS Certified Security.

Edmund Stephen SmithHeath Lead

Health Technical Development Lead

John BillingsGovernment Managed Services

Managed Services

Eugene Dementyev Senior DevOps

DevOps Principal - Health

Zavier Boyd Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer

Maiza Rehan Cloud Native

AWS Certified, Cloud Developer

Nathan Black Senior Developer

DevOps.

Matthieu MichaudSenior Cloud Architect

Migration Lead

Mark Keys Developer

Senior Manager, Developer

We Work With

A select set of national (and international) products, customers and partners

Diverse sectors including financial, insurance, healthcare, biotech, agritech, housing, government, IOT and education

Complex problem domains. Enterprise Data. Business goal orientated.

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