Andrew Braae
CEO at HR Zap
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Braae is a technology-oriented entrepreneur and CEO based in Auckland with 11 years of focused experience building HR and recruitment technology, including founding SnapHire and currently leading CheckPlease and HR Zap. He combines deep product and engineering roots—from early mainframe development at IBM and Oracle to modern cloud HR APIs—with a knack for pragmatic integrations that simplify hiring workflows and background checks. Andrew has repeatedly turned HR challenges into SaaS products and platforms, notably delivering CheckPlease criminal record checks integrated into recruitment ecosystems. His work often emphasizes secure, API-driven solutions and a distinctly Kiwi approach to practical workforce problems, such as managing COVID-19 vaccination status for employers.
11 years of coding experience
38 years of employment as a software developer
Central Institute of Technology
Github Skills (45)
monitoring10
visualization10
dashboard10
mysql10
grafana10
visualize10
analytics10
go10
prometheus10
composable10
elasticsearch10
data-visualization10
influxdb10
observability9
business-intelligence9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
talentappstore/tas-core-apis
Oct 2014 - Mar 2018
Contributions:46 commits, 4 PRs, 107 pushes in 3 years 5 months
app-storetalentopen-platformmicroservicesintegrating
talentappstore/tas-des-static
Nov 2014 - Mar 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 24 pushes in 3 years 4 months
design-documentsdesign-system
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