Summary
Conrad Dobbs is a Principal Engineer based in Auckland with 13 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web and mobile platforms, from PHP/GraphQL backends to React and React Native frontends. He has led engineering teams and served as CTO on multiple products—most recently architecting scalable, ML-enabled educational and automotive platforms and operating them on AWS. Conrad combines practical leadership with deep implementation skills in TypeScript, ES6, Kubernetes, and microservices, and is particularly excited about using cloud-native patterns to achieve massive scalability. He has repeatedly moved projects from prototype to production, including ownership of classification ML pipelines and GraphQL APIs, and enjoys mentoring teams to deliver reliable, maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at The University of Waikato