Lachlan Priest
Founder at New Neighbour NZ
New Zealand
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Top SchoolLachlan Priest is a founder and technologist with 12 years of experience building and scaling product-led businesses, most recently launching New Neighbour NZ to tackle New Zealand’s housing crisis with affordable, carbon-negative modular homes. He previously co-founded Advocately (acquired by G2) and held technical roles at G2 and TradeGecko, blending hands-on engineering with product and go-to-market insight. Trained in economics and international relations, he combines quantitative thinking with a systems view of housing, policy and markets. Lachlan’s work emphasizes sustainability and profitability—demonstrating that green building can be a scalable route to increased home ownership. He’s driven by a personal connection to New Zealand’s cultural aspiration for homeownership and an appetite for pragmatic innovation that moves projects from prototype to impact.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Economics, Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Economics at Victoria University of Wellington
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
gmail10
quickbooks10
api10
html10
json10
forum10
discourse10
oauth10
ruby10
duplicate10
spree10
authorization10
oauth2-server10
omniauth10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
lcpriest/advolytics
Oct 2017 - Jul 2019
Tracking snippet for advocately
Contributions:2 PRs, 44 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
snippettracking
advocately/advonps-widget
Sep 2017 - Jul 2019
NPS in-app widget with Glimmer and Typescript
Contributions:29 commits, 9 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 10 months
widgetapp-widgetnpsglimmertypescript
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