Peter Akuhata
Chief Technology Officer at HazardCo
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolPeter Akuhata is a seasoned technology leader and mobile-first engineer with over 11 years of experience, now serving as CTO at HazardCo after progressing through product and engineering leadership roles there. He combines hands-on mobile development and platform experience from Trade Me and ANZ with strong team and product stewardship, thriving in cross-disciplinary Agile environments. Peter is a people-focused coach who values collaboration and continuous learning—interests that extend beyond tech into sports, music, and community mentoring. Unusually for a CTO, he has a creative background in Māori-language storytelling (national runner-up) and a history of competitive sport, signaling a blend of technical rigor, cultural engagement, and team-oriented drive.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering at University of Waikato
English, maoriGithub contributions (5)
peterAkuhata/city-animation
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes in 9 days
peterAkuhata/design-tidbits
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.