John Ballinger
Chief Tree Planting Officer at GoodSign Ltd
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolJohn Ballinger is a serial founder and engineering leader with 15+ years of experience turning product experiments into production SaaS and mobile applications. He co-founded AskNicely, where he built a world-class engineering and design org and established true continuous integration and deployment practices, and now runs ApplyHere and GoodSign with an emphasis on practical, ethical business models (20% of GoodSign sales fund tree planting). Early adopter and tinkerer since childhood, he hacked the first iPhone in New Zealand, created the first iPhone heart monitor featured in an Apple TV ad, and sold a social tool (LongReply) to MailChimp—demonstrating a knack for spotting product-market fit even after failures. Comfortable shipping end-to-end—from building Flash-era mega-sites to modern mobile and SaaS stacks—he combines hands-on engineering, product intuition, and a willingness to DIY (he literally built his office desks). Based in Auckland, he also lends governance experience as a TracPlus board member and brings an adventurous streak reflected in world-record jet-skiing feats and a filmed wildlife rescue.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Waihi CollegeEngineer's Degree, Engineering Science, Engineer's Degree, Engineering Science at University of Auckland
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Github Skills (72)
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cocoa9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sponno/sponno
Nov 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
sponno/iPhone-Photoshop-JSX-Icon-Exporter
Jul 2010 - May 2011
Contributions:11 commits in 9 months
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