Ben Gracewood

Ben is a CTO / VP Engineering with experience across multiple sectors including SaaS, finance, and media.
While a technologist at heart, his primary expertise is growing diverse, high-performance product engineering teams and implementing the culture, values, tools and processes required to deliver software at pace.
Ben was Vend’s first engineering manager, where he grew the engineering team from 8 to 80, shipped product on average every 6 minutes, and ultimately contributed to Vend’s ~NZ$500m exit.
He’s also co-founder of NZ’s largest independent software engineering conference, Codemania.