Gert Verhoog
Chief Technology Officer at qrtr
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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SeniorGert Verhoog is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Wellington with 25 years in IT and a 13-year track record scaling software-focused businesses. He builds AI-driven products and AI-first development workflows while remaining hands-on in engineering, blending product vision with deep operational expertise in cloud, security, and high-performance SaaS. As a co-founder and former IT operations lead at Montoux, he grew a fintech startup into an international organisation serving some of the world’s largest financial institutions. Gert is experienced in recruiting, coaching, and fostering resilient, high-performing teams through a pragmatic, people-first leadership style. He is comfortable turning complex, business-critical requirements into auditable, secure systems and enjoys embedding AI to accelerate developer productivity. Currently guiding qrtr as CTO, he combines entrepreneurial grit with technical depth to drive long-term platform reliability and innovation.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (25)
draw7
diagram7
javascript-client6
javascript6
graph-drawing5
graph-editor4
connections4
attestation4
editor4
drawio4
whiteboard3
compliance3
gdpr3
sarif3
diagramming3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (3)
montoux/gestalt
Jul 2012 - Nov 2012
Small Clojure library that manages configuration parameters such as datbase connections for multiple environments.
Contributions:16 commits, 1 comment in 4 months
parametersclojure-libraryconfigconnectionsclojure
strongdm/comply
May 2021 - May 2021
Compliance automation framework, focused on SOC2
Contributions:1 comment in 1 day
hipaapdf-generationcomplianceiso27001compliance-automation
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