Keoni Mahelona
CTO at Te Hiku Media
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolKeoni Mahelona is a CTO and multidisciplinary technologist with 12 years of experience building products at the intersection of language, water sustainability, and embedded systems. Based in Wellington and rooted in Native Hawaiian and Kauaʻi origins, he leads development of NLP tools for te reo Māori and built a digital media platform for SMEs at Te Hiku Media. He blends hands-on engineering—from backend contributions to the LibreTime radio automation project improving Python 3 and Liquidsoap integrations—to strategic product and research roles spanning prototypes with Arduino/Raspberry Pi and polymer microstructure commercialization. A serial founder and former CEO of WaterGenie, he has a track record of turning academic research into pragmatic devices and businesses that address environmental challenges. His background in physics and engineering (Olin, Babson, Victoria University) informs a systems-level approach to productizing research and scaling resilient, community-focused technology. Outside work he trains for 70.3 triathlons, evidence of the endurance and discipline he brings to long-term technical missions.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringMaster of Science - MS, Physics, Master of Science - MS, Physics at Victoria University of WellingtonMaster of Science - MS, Business Management with a concentration in Technology Entrepreneurship, Master of Science - MS, Business Management with a concentration in Technology Entrepreneurship at Babson College - Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business
Github Skills (3)
python10
telnet9
dependency-management9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
libretime/libretime
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
LibreTime: Radio Broadcast & Automation Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 15 commits, 9 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Keoni focused on fixing bugs and improving the compatibility of the LibreTime platform, particularly in relation to Python 3 and its integration with the Liquidsoap service. Their contributions involved addressing encoding issues in Python code, specifically when interacting with the telnet interface of Liquidsoap. They also worked on dependency management, updating and pinning specific versions of libraries such as `mutagen` and `pika` to ensure code stability and prevent compatibility issues. These changes likely improved the reliability and stability of the radio broadcasting platform.
icecastradio-stationbroadcastaudiostudio
TeHikuMedia/Kaitiakitanga-License
Oct 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 28 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 1 month
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