Patrick Hindmarsh
Co-Founder at Octal Ltd
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolPatrick Hindmarsh is a seasoned technology founder and architect with 13+ years building distributed systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure and consumer-facing digital products from startups to government. As Co-Founder of Octal and Localhost NZ and former Principal Architect at New Zealand’s Ministry of Health, he led high-pressure, high-impact programs (including COVID-era consumer services) that balanced rapid delivery with accessibility and policy considerations. He excels at translating stakeholder goals into pragmatic architectures, uniting business and engineering to deliver measurable outcomes. Hands-on across backend, infrastructure and automation, his contributions include improving PHP notification libraries and designing multi-AZ AWS platforms and CI/CD pipelines. Based in Wellington, he brings a practical, systems-level view and a track record of making complex integrations robust, scalable and auditable.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Lindisfarne CollegeBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
php10
apple-push-notifications10
push-notifications10
regular-expression7
oop6
notification6
number-formatting6
doorkeeper6
trim6
mysql6
iconv6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Ph3nol/NotificationPusher
Jun 2013 - Jul 2014
Standalone PHP library for easy devices notifications push.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Patrick made several contributions related to notification pushing functionality within the PHP library. They updated the APNS adapter to include custom data and addressed the handling of the sound parameter. Furthermore, the user corrected a token regular expression within the GCM adapter. These changes demonstrate a focus on enhancing existing features and ensuring correct functionality within the notification system.
pushphppush-notificationsnotification-servicestandalone
commonledger/sdk-php
Jan 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:39 commits in 6 months
phpblockchainsdkledgerphp-sdk
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