Summary
Chris Greeff is a founder and director based in Auckland with 11 years of hands-on experience building fast, product-focused full-stack software for startups and solo founders. He founded Avokodo to help early-stage teams design, ship, and scale MVPs quickly, drawing on a track record as a founding engineer and engineering lead across companies like Xero, Vend, Paloma, and CoachMate. Chris blends architecture, frontend and backend development, hosting, and UX with a pragmatic emphasis on shipping meaningful products and embedding engineering best practices from day one. He’s comfortable scaling both systems and teams, moving between rapid prototyping and longer-term technical leadership roles. Beyond consultancy he continues to launch ventures and consult—evident in recent roles from technical lead to co-founder—bringing entrepreneurial instincts to technical decisions. An engineer who values speed and clarity, he often surfaces long-term maintainability while optimising for early market traction.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma, High School Deploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma, High School Deploma at Kristin School
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) with Honors, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) with Honors, Computer Software Engineering at University of Auckland