Sam Minnée
CTO at Creative HQ
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Minnée is a veteran technology leader and co-founder with 15+ years of experience scaling product-driven software companies from startup to scale, best known as the original lead developer and long-time CEO of Silverstripe CMS. Now based in Wellington, he combines hands-on engineering and strategic CTO roles across startups and advisory engagements—currently leading engineering at Frankie and co-founding Astronort while offering Virtual CTO services through Tangerine Labs. Sam’s track record includes driving agile practices, major open-source product releases (Silverstripe Platform and CMS v3/v4), and delivering national-scale platforms like New Zealand’s Common Web Platform. He mentors early-stage founders through Creative HQ and brings a rare blend of CEO-level operational grit, technical architecture depth, and practical bootstrapping experience—often acting as the operator who chases suppliers, balances the books, and still ships the code.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA Philosophy and Computing, BA Philosophy and Computing at Victoria University of Wellington
German
Stackoverflow
734reputation
25kreached
25answers
4questions
Github Skills (200)
behat10
uploader10
raygun10
thesaurus10
grav-plugin10
google-tag-manager10
dotenv10
api10
github-api10
identifier10
environment-variables10
package-manager10
summernote10
php10
adobe-experience-manager10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
sminnee/workflowmax-php
Nov 2015 - May 2021
PHP SDK for the WorkflowMax API
Contributions:9 releases, 3 PRs, 15 pushes in 5 years 7 months
apichinese-simplifiedphpsdkworkflowmax
sminnee/blockworld
Apr 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:11 PRs, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 6 months
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