Peter Heesterman
Director at Heesterman Software Limited
New Zealand
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Top SchoolPeter Heesterman is a pragmatic software leader and director with a decade of experience building and scaling product-focused engineering teams across video, social media analytics, finance, retail, defence, and image processing. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering with strategic product thinking, having led create-and-upload experiences at Loom that reached millions of users and sustained peaks of 20,000 recordings an hour. Comfortable operating in high-uncertainty environments, he mentors teams, architects microservices on Kubernetes/AWS, and moves between technical implementation and business-aligned strategy. As founder of Heesterman Software he quietly delivers bespoke software for paying clients, demonstrating both entrepreneurial discipline and domain breadth. Peter’s background in electronic and computer systems (First Class honours) and early robotics research underpins a practical curiosity for image processing and reverse-engineering challenges. He’s known for collecting and sharing ideas, and for turning ambitious product visions into reliable, production-grade systems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering with Honours (First Class), Electronic and Computer Sytems, Bachelor of Engineering with Honours (First Class), Electronic and Computer Sytems at Victoria University of Wellington
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Github Skills (34)
javascript10
twitter10
async10
prototypes10
date-fns10
datepicker10
react10
closures10
rust-crates9
cli8
steganography7
rust6
timezone6
momentjs6
api6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
peterheesterman/steg
Oct 2018 - Mar 2019
Command line steganography tool
Contributions:1 release, 40 commits, 19 PRs in 5 months
golangcommand-linesteganographycli
peterheesterman/notes
Apr 2017 - Jun 2018
A place to store notes on content that i listen to
Contributions:60 PRs, 39 pushes, 52 branches in 1 year 1 month
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