Summary
Andrew Chisholm is an Enterprise Architect based in Wellington with over 11 years in senior architecture roles and a career spanning system design, data and integration since the late 1980s. He excels at translating complex business domains into practical, future-proof architectures—particularly data, GIS and AWS cloud solutions—and building strategic roadmaps that deliver measurable value. Known for forging trusted stakeholder relationships, he uncovers underlying needs and crafts innovative, pragmatic solutions across product and technical domains. His background includes leading enterprise data and event-driven architectures for organisations like MetService and Xero, and he brings hands-on systems design experience from earlier roles at Telecom and Reuters. A natural translator between business and engineering, he combines deep technical breadth with curiosity-driven insight into what truly matters for customers and the organisation.
11 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
BCA, Computer Science, BCA, Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington