Walter Rumsby
Chief Product & Technology Officer at CONQA
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolWalter Rumsby is a veteran software and product leader with 13 years in senior technology roles and a two-decade engineering pedigree that spans startups to enterprise. As CONQA’s Chief Product & Technology Officer he sharpened product vision and led delivery of major features like Issues by aligning teams around measurable customer value. He has a track record of transforming struggling engineering organisations—reducing technical debt, breaking knowledge silos, and introducing modern practices to accelerate delivery. Earlier roles at Xero and My Food Bag show he combines hands-on front-end and platform expertise with people leadership, having built in-house teams and reusable UI systems. Based in Auckland, he balances strategic product thinking with practical engineering instincts and a preference for pragmatic process change over silver-bullet prescriptions. Colleagues describe him as the kind of leader who hires, mentors and then gets into the code when it matters.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BCom, Information Technology, BCom, Information Technology at University of Auckland
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Github contributions (5)
wrumsby/ristretto
May 2013 - Dec 2016
Contributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 7 months
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wrumsby/DefinitelyTyped
May 2017 - May 2023
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Contributions:26 pushes, 20 branches in 6 years
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