Summary
Gavin Heale is a seasoned technology executive and founder/CEO with 25+ years in tech and over 20 in leadership, blending hands-on software craft with team-scale delivery from Miami. As founder and CEO of Kugadi since 2015, he built a GPS/NFC-powered platform that tracks field staff and automates client reporting, growing from zero to serving over thirty security guard companies. He leads cutting-edge work at Rock8 as Director, tackling event-driven architectures, ML and AI to solve hard business problems, while advising at RDDTree on cloud adoption. His career spans CTO, architect, and director roles at firms including Dark Indigo, DataSynapse, UBS, Dimension Data, and ICT Innovations, where he established technical standards and led multi-region teams. Gavin holds a B.Bus.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town and is known for fostering open communication, agile, hands-on leadership that stays connected to the Miami tech community through speaking engagements and ecosystem involvement.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.Bus.Sc, Computer Science, B.Bus.Sc, Computer Science at University of Cape Town