Timothy Young
Chief Executive Officer, Founder at My Life My Voice
Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand
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Top SchoolTimothy Young is a mission-driven technology founder and CEO with a decade of experience building accessible, evidence-based digital products that solve real-world inclusion challenges. After completing postgraduate studies in psychology and educational psychology, he combined research-backed pedagogy with game design to create an open-world educational game and later founded Smart Access to produce patent-pending apps and hardware that turn accessibility data into personalised navigation for disabled pedestrians. He has led nonprofits and social enterprises, securing seven-figure contracts and scaling programs that blend AI training, community upskilling, and data-driven infrastructure prioritisation. Tim’s work uniquely spans product design, research, and advocacy—translating lived experience as a tetraplegic into technical solutions like AR data collection tools and navigation tailored for low vision users. Based in Hamilton, New Zealand, he’s as comfortable coding in Unity and prototyping hardware as he is advising boards and winning strategic partnerships.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Psychology, Bachelor's Degree, Psychology at University of OtagoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at The University of WaikatoPGCertEdPsych, Educational Psychology, PGCertEdPsych, Educational Psychology at Massey UniversityGithub contributions (1)
youti174/Island-Village
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 month
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