Octal was created by three friends with a penchant for building things. We had worked together on and off for over a decade, and decided to pool our talents to create a small technology and hardware development consultancy.Together we provide a range of technology consulting and development services based on our collective experience building clever hardware and software solutions to make human experiences better.

HELL makes New Zealand’s 666% best pizza. In this role I led the IT / development team at HELL. I was responsible for all customer and internal IT systems across the group, which were used by hundreds of thousands of customers every month. During my time at HELL, we built and rolled out a number of bespoke systems which supported the business through an extended growth phase and helped position the business to compete with new entrants to the QSR market. These included a complete… Show more HELL makes New Zealand’s 666% best pizza. In this role I led the IT / development team at HELL. I was responsible for all customer and internal IT systems across the group, which were used by hundreds of thousands of customers every month. During my time at HELL, we built and rolled out a number of bespoke systems which supported the business through an extended growth phase and helped position the business to compete with new entrants to the QSR market. These included a complete franchise management platform (POS, online ordering, intranet), new iOS and Android native mobile apps for customer ordering and a custom driver tracking and mobility solution. Show less

Pricemaker is an internet venture that connects Kiwis with their local businesses. I joined as the second employee and was part of the team that attracted a significant investment from Fairfax Media in 2014.In this role I worked across the full Pricemaker stack, which was composed of AngularJS on the front end, and PHP + MySQL + Beanstalkd on the back end. We also used Terraform and Puppet to orchestrate the environment in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

IT support and technical advice to a range of organisations across New Zealand.