Summary
Nick Langstone is an experienced architecture practice lead and cloud-focused software architect with over 25 years in IT and a recent nine-year track record in senior roles driving digital transformation. He blends hands-on engineering in scalable cloud systems (AWS, high-throughput platforms handling hundreds of thousands to millions of transactions per minute) with pragmatic process improvement and API-first, DevSecOps practices. As a consultant, chapter lead, CTO and virtual CTO he’s repeatedly rescued and scaled products and teams, translating complex technical choices into clear business outcomes. Nick is an enthusiastic IoT practitioner and mentor who often sparks change simply by mapping real business processes on a whiteboard—prompting stakeholders to rethink how work actually happens. Based in Auckland, he focuses on cost-effective, elastic architectures and prefers leveraging existing solutions rather than reinventing them.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at The University of Auckland