Summary
Leyton Blackler is a Melbourne-based software engineer with 10 years' experience building full-stack web and mobile products, currently developing at Inlight. He has led end-to-end projects from inception to production—rebuilding e-commerce and internal platforms, launching subscription services, and shipping NZ’s first tenant-landlord AI chatbot while at Keyhook. Skilled in React, TypeScript and UI/UX, Leyton combines product-minded front-end craft with pragmatic back-end delivery to improve onboarding, retention and operational workflows. Often the sole or lead engineer on projects, he focuses on maintainable architectures and developer ergonomics that scale with the business. Outside of work he brings an engineer’s curiosity to design language and practical automation, such as cloud-hosted label printing and bank-feed reconciliation systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Otumoetai College
Bachelor of Engineering with Honours (First Class), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering with Honours (First Class), Software Engineering at Victoria University of Wellington