Brent Neave
Team Lead, Product Design at Seequent
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Neave is a seasoned design and product leader based in Wellington with over two decades of experience and 11 years focused in product-facing roles, currently leading the Product Design team at Seequent. He blends hands-on design, front-end development, and systems thinking to build design systems, user workflows, and widely used web and technical products across geospatial, fintech, and SaaS domains. Brent has a track record of scaling teams and processes—recruiting designers and developers, shipping iterative improvements, and improving accessibility and consistency at organisations like Koordinates, BNZ and Stedi. He values lucid problem solving and careful craft, and his background includes award-winning agency work and early contributions to major mobile app launches. Unusually for a design lead, he pairs strategic leadership with frequent contributions to codebases and design systems, keeping delivery tightly aligned with engineering.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PGDipArts, Design Studies, PGDipArts, Design Studies at University of Otago
Github Skills (10)
javascript8
javascript-framework6
plugin3
mui3
figma3
bug-tracker3
qgis2
version-control2
figma-plugin2
geospatial1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
brentneave/tidal-ui
Jun 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:214 commits, 54 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 2 months
brentneave/cgol
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:54 pushes, 17 branches, 1 issue in 27 days
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