Joshua Rippon
Technical Team Lead at Simfuni
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolJoshua Rippon is a hands-on technical team lead with nine years of experience building and shipping web, mobile, and cloud systems across startups and high-performance engineering organisations. He combines people leadership and product thinking to turn ambiguous priorities into reliable, measurable outcomes—evidenced by leading Roady’s shift to a paid model that grew annual app revenue 7x and doubling paid conversion. Comfortable both architecting platforms and diving into code, Joshua has led cross-functional teams at Rocket Lab, Flux Federation, and Roady to deliver mission-critical operations, billing, and consumer experiences while improving observability and performance. He prioritises clear communication, pragmatic delivery, and data-informed decisions, having introduced metrics-driven roadmaps and lifecycle marketing to boost activation and retention. Based in Wellington, he pairs a physics honours background with a practical engineering mindset that focuses on measurable business impact and operational readiness.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Rongotai CollegeBachelor of Science Honours (BSc(Hons)), Physics, Bachelor of Science Honours (BSc(Hons)), Physics at University of Auckland
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Github Skills (34)
datetime10
javascript10
momentjs10
region10
timestamp10
open-source9
angular9
filesaver9
cli8
react8
typescript8
nodejs8
flutter7
maps6
dart6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kiwi-koder/date-holidays
Oct 2020 - Sep 2022
worldwide holidays
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
worldwide
kiwi-koder/angular-udemy-course
Nov 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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