Andre Westerlund is a full-stack developer with nine years of hands-on experience building production software across startups and telecoms, currently developing Aotearoa’s fully-sovereign language AI products Kaituhi and Papa Reo at Te Hiku Media. He moves comfortably from TypeScript and React/Next.js frontends to Python/Django backends and Postgres, and has practical DevOps experience with Docker and Kubernetes. Previously he delivered Salesforce Marketing Cloud automations and personalised journeys for SLEEQ and shipped a suite of internal tools at Vodafone Samoa that became daily operational fixtures. Andre founded Samoa Code Hub and has a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from Victoria University of Wellington, blending community-focused initiative with formal training. He’s particularly interested in conversations about shipping AI to production and building productised, locally sovereign ML systems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computational Science, Bachelor of Science, Computational Science at Victoria University of Wellington
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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Andre Westerlund - Full Stack Developer at Te Hiku Media