Steven Rutherford
Interim Head Of Technology at ThirdEye
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Rutherford is an interim Head of Technology and fractional CTO with 11 years of hands-on experience turning founder ideas into production products and scalable engineering teams. He has a proven track record scaling teams from a single engineer to 50+ while preserving culture and velocity, and has helped startups reach product-market fit and raise Series A funding. Comfortable both as a strategic leader and a coder, he leverages rapid prototyping tools and AI-driven workflows to compress idea-to-production timelines from months to weeks. His background includes leading engineering at Appetise, managing multi-market deliveries across startups at Paloma, and running high-scale Java microservices for millions of users at Infinity Works. Based in Christchurch, New Zealand, he pairs practical full-stack experience with hiring, process design, and leadership development to make teams predictably productive. An educator at heart, he balances building for value with sharing knowledge to lift the whole organisation.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Programming & Accounting, High School, Programming & Accounting at Nayland CollegeBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Canterbury
Github Skills (65)
ludum-dare10
formatter9
google9
python8
php8
aws8
terraform7
ecommerce7
terraform-provider7
graphviz7
currency6
magento6
api5
adobe5
planet5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
StevenR152/craftyjs_game
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
A repository for people to build their first game using Crafty JS.
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 17 days
craftcmsfirst-game
codersuk/ludum-dare-44
Apr 2019 - May 2019
A game for Ludum Dare #44 Based on the theme "Your life is currency".
Contributions:113 commits, 65 PRs, 117 pushes in 5 days
gameludum-dare-44currencylifeludum-dare
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