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Tobias Gerschner

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Head of Engineering at Koan
📍 Wellington, New Zealand

Tobias is the Head of Engineering at Koan, focusing on delivering strong client outcomes through engineering excellence. With a background as a Cloud Native Practice Lead and an AWS certification, he specializes in bringing people and technology together, particularly in ambiguous situations. He also founded the IT consultancy SAPIENT(NZ).

Passionate about fostering the tech community, Tobias has been involved in mentoring at events like Startup Weekend Kapiti. He thrives on shaping a shared vision and building momentum to implement it, showing a clear interest in supporting people to get the most out of technology, especially within New Zealand.

Tobias has spoken at tech conferences, including a talk on "Serverless on Kubernetes" at DevOpsDays Wellington.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Head of Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Wellington, New Zealand
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Engineering Leadership
As Head of Engineering and a former Team Lead, his focus is on doubling down on engineering excellence and helping engineers thrive.
Cloud Native Tech
Previously a Practice Lead in Cloud Native, holds AWS certification, and actively posts about hiring for Azure, DevOps, and Kubernetes roles.
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Career

Work history

5-2024
Head of Engineering
Koan
8-2023 - 5-2024
Practice Lead - Cloud Native
Koan
5-2015 - 6-2024
Director
SAPIENT(NZ)
4-2023 - 8-2023
Team Lead
Culture Amp
6-2022 - 5-2023
Technical Lead
Culture Amp
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