Consulting Services · Auckland, New Zealand
Security, software architecture and hands-on development for teams working through complex technical problems.
Ross Hawkins brings more than 30 years of IT experience. He also founded and led a software development consultancy for 14 years, working hands-on across architecture, development, delivery and client engagement. Client work is led and delivered directly by one practitioner, with scope and handover agreed up front.
Advice, review and implementation
Review applications and source code, test agreed attack surfaces, and help teams understand what to address first. Findings are explained with evidence, context and practical remediation options.
A scoped technical review is not a certification or blanket compliance sign-off.
Shape a new system, modernise an existing application, or deliver a focused feature. Work can span architecture, implementation and integration, using technologies that fit the problem.
Investigate application and database bottlenecks, make the causes understandable, and prioritise changes. Experience includes SQL Server and T-SQL performance work and systems handling sensitive health and financial data.
Identify useful, bounded applications for AI and automation, advise on policy and risk, and help integrate tools into software delivery and existing workflows.
Bring experienced technical direction to a team or project: clarify requirements, guide architecture, strengthen engineering practice, and help resolve difficult delivery or quality issues.
Explore a game concept, prototype gameplay, or contribute to an existing project. HCS also builds and operates its own software products, applying the same practical engineering discipline.
Experience across countries and disciplines
A career of more than 30 years in IT, with professional roles in New Zealand and the UK and on-site project work in Norway. Experience spans software development, infrastructure, consulting, architecture and technical leadership.
Career roles in Auckland and London, with on-site project work in Norway.
Work has spanned web and .NET development, architecture, e-commerce, health and financial-data systems, infrastructure, DevOps and application security.
Experience includes technical leadership, project delivery and consulting, as well as application security, performance improvement and AI governance advice.
How an engagement works
Some engagements need a second opinion; others need a review, a plan or hands-on engineering. The work is shaped around the decision or outcome you need.
Auckland · Scope agreed before work begins
