Ben Gracewood
Vice President Of Engineering at Cashbucket
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolBen Gracewood is an experienced technology leader and Vice President of Engineering based in Auckland with over a decade of building and scaling engineering organisations across startups and enterprises. He specialises in data engineering, machine learning, and full‑stack delivery, with a track record of growing teams from single digits to 100+ engineers and helping drive a NZ$500M exit. Ben combines hands‑on technical judgment with people-first leadership, prioritising developer experience, observability, and pragmatic modernisation of legacy systems. He also advises and invests in Kiwi tech through Movac and mentorship roles, focusing on diversity and action‑oriented engineering culture from day one. Outside of corporate roles he co-founded Codemania, a conference that has shaped New Zealand’s developer community—an indication of his commitment to lifting local engineering standards as well as shipping products.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at The University of Auckland
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Github Skills (77)
python10
automation10
home-assistant10
mqtt10
home-automation10
iot10
medium10
pypi10
asyncio10
privacy10
raspberry-pi10
javascript9
jetbrains9
postgresql9
dashboard9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nzben/dotfiles
Feb 2017 - Aug 2021
My .files
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes in 4 years 7 months
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kolatr-dev/metricflow
Apr 2024 - Aug 2024
MetricFlow allows you to define, build, and maintain metrics in code.
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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