Summary
John Fitzgerald is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based on the Gold Coast with nine years in senior engineering and product-facing roles and decades of hands-on software experience. He builds and scales edge AI platforms and IoT/Smart City solutions, combining software architecture, systems design, CV/ML, and cloud-native DevOps to move models from research into production. At Smart AI Connect and previously at Constellation and 3 Crowns he led teams to ingest high-frequency sensor data, deploy automated object-detection workflows, and evolve SaaS products into platform offerings. He is comfortable across the stack—APIs, web apps, messaging, and embedded IoT—and has driven Agile, CI/CD, and Git/JIRA practices as part of delivery roadmaps. A practical strategist and teacher, he pairs diagram-first systems thinking with hands-on implementation to reduce risk and speed iteration. His background includes a first-class BSc(Hons) in Computer Science and a track record of turning complex sensor and imagery data into operational, revenue-generating systems.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science with Honours (B. Sc. Hons), Computer Science, 1st Class, Bachelor of Science with Honours (B. Sc. Hons), Computer Science, 1st Class at Victoria University of Wellington