Who are we

About Us

We’re a team of technologists, strategists, and engineers who thrive on turning complex challenges into clean, intelligent solutions.

Mission Statement

We exist to make things better — faster, smarter, and with purpose

We partner with medium to large organisations to design and deliver technology that doesn’t just work, it works fast and it works smart. With a distributed team of >20, we’re nimble, responsive, and deeply committed to our clients’ success.

Our strength lies in our people: highly experienced, grounded, and always curious. We don’t send in consultants to tick boxes; we show up as collaborators ready to build, mentor, and move the needle.

Company values

one

Own it

Take ownership, take initiative, drive outcomes, lead.

two

Stay curious

Keep learning, keep growing, love the process.

three

Transform

Challenge, innovate, simplify, brilliantly.

four

Be Great Together

Diverse minds, strong teams, no egos.

five

Lead with Integrity

Honest, kind, and dependable in every interaction.

Meet the team

Utsav Sharma

Founder & Technical Director

A three-time CTO with enterprise, startup, and consulting experience, Utsav has led full-cycle development of scalable tech stacks and roadmaps from the ground up, as well as helping clients transform legacy environments.

Startups allow best practice from day one. Utsav brings his passion for cutting-edge technology and ways of working to help established businesses modernise their human and technical systems to deliver for customers faster.

Utsav has helped clients across the financial services, banking, payments, insurance, healthcare, and other sectors reduce tech debt, improve reliability, enhance security, migrate from legacy to cloud, and build scalable and secure integrations. He loves building and leading high-performing engineering teams while still getting his hands dirty with design and architecture of cloud-native platforms.

Nigel Pollock

Chief Growth Officer

Nigel is a visionary leader and growth strategist with over two decades of experience driving transformative change across the financial services, technology, and consulting sectors. As a former national director, founder and board member, he excels at long-term strategic planning and fostering innovation, consistently aligning people, processes, and technology to achieve meaningful, lasting outcomes.

Nigel has a proven track record of leading high-performing teams, securing multimillion-dollar contracts, and pioneering new operating models that deliver measurable growth. His strategic acumen and innovative mindset have positioned him as a trusted advisor to major banks, government agencies, and international SaaS providers.

An engaging communicator and Chartered Member of the Institute of Directors, Nigel frequently shares his insights on business transformation, digital strategy, and leadership, inspiring the next generation of leaders.

Lewis Kwong

Software Engineering Team Lead (NZ)

Lewis is a senior developer and infrastructure specialist with deep experience in building and maintaining secure, reliable systems for the financial services industry. With a strong foundation in systems engineering, cloud infrastructure, and automation, he has worked across high-compliance environments to support critical applications, streamline operations, and improve platform resilience.

He brings a practical, hands-on approach to problem-solving and is particularly skilled in navigating the complex regulatory and performance demands of banking and financial platforms. Lewis is passionate about efficiency, clean architecture, and building systems that scale reliably under pressure.

Lishu Gupta

Software Engineering Team Lead (IND)

A product-minded full-stack engineer with a strong foundation in backend systems, Lishu brings hands-on experience building robust, scalable applications using modern frameworks like NestJS, Vue.js, and Next.js. At Trippl, Lishu leads both core development and AI initiatives, balancing speed with reliability in fast-paced, client-facing environments.

Lishu thrives in greenfield and transformation projects alike, equally comfortable building from scratch or modernizing legacy systems. With a growing focus on developer experience, automation, and integrations, he’s passionate about building tools that solve real-world business problems without overengineering.

He’s worked across financial services, lending, and internal tooling, owning end-to-end delivery across frontend, backend, and dev workflows. From OpenAPI-first API design to real-time document generation, Lishu consistently delivers clean, maintainable solutions while championing simplicity, pragmatism, and velocity.

Jason Cullum

Quality Assurance Lead

Jason is a highly experienced quality assurance leader with a career spanning over two decades in some of the world’s most recognised technology and digital brands. His QA expertise has helped power high-performance platforms in e-commerce, global payments, telecommunications, and leading SaaS environments. Throughout his career, Jason has held roles with Canva, Atlassian, Pushpay and Trade Me, to name a few (shameless name dropping, we know).

With deep hands-on knowledge across modern test automation, CI/CD pipelines, release management, and quality-first culture, Jason brings a critical lens to how digital products are built, scaled, and sustained. He is known for embedding quality into every layer of the development lifecycle, from code to customer. Jason’s calm, methodical approach, coupled with his strategic insight, has earned him a reputation for lifting team capability and product reliability. He’s passionate about building scalable test frameworks, mentoring engineers, and helping teams confidently ship better software, faster.

At Trippl, Jason plays a pivotal role in enabling clients to deliver high-trust, high-performance digital experiences through modern quality engineering practices.

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Join the team

We’re always on the lookout for sharp curious technologists, grounded team players and delivery leaders. Our team is distributed by design, united by purpose; low ego with high standards; and committed to ownership, trust, and learning.