Nitzan Karni

Senior product & delivery leadership

From first idea to shipped product.

Twenty-five years building and shipping software as a founder, product director and de-facto CTO. Whether you're getting something new off the ground or a project's not moving the way it should, I take it on and get it moving, steering delivery, aligning users, business and developers, using judgment more than horsepower — knowing which calls matter, and bringing calm and momentum where there's usually heat.

Available fractionally (part-time) or as an advisor

How I help

Product & delivery leadership

Priorities, roadmap and scope, and the calls that keep a product shipping, setting the team up to succeed: creating the framework, context and conditions in which capable people do their best work.

De-facto CTO, when it counts

Senior technical judgment for founders without a full-time executive — architecture sense, sound decisions, and a reliable translator between business and engineering.

The human side

Projects stall over people more often than code. As an accredited mediator, I resolve the disagreements that hold delivery back and get stakeholders aligned.

Now

My Flywheel

A proprietary algorithmic trading engine with AI-assisted market analysis, that executes automatically with capital preservation as its first principle. Designed and built part-time over the past two years, in Python and Vue.js.

It's how I keep my technical judgment sharp and current — and it grounds the advisory, board and delivery work I do for others.

Selected work

01

Product & Development Manager

iConcept

Led product and development across client engagements — priorities, delivery coordination, and alignment between business goals and engineering.

2024—26
02

Front-End Development & Delivery Lead, UX Direction

ReadyTech Justice (ASX:RDY)

Led a whole-system front-end modernisation of a court and tribunal platform for HM Courts & Tribunals Service in England and Wales — new design system and framework, WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility conformance, and the delivery team behind it. Alongside this, digital transformation work with Australian government agencies.

2021—24
03

Technical Co-founder & Product Director

Guided Resolution

Online dispute-resolution platform used by courts, tribunals and universities across AU, NZ and the US, with government-system integrations. Distributed teams; winner of ‘Westpac Business of Tomorrow’.

2013—22
04

Co-founder & CEO

Webko

Built a web agency and a proprietary CMS / e-commerce platform, led a team of nine, and raised close to $1M in private and government funding.

2000—08

References

“Nitzan is the person you want in the room as early as possible. He helped set the direction, then led the design, UX and delivery of a major front-end rebuild of a platform used daily across the justice sector. The result was a system that was simply easier to use, with accessibility and load testing to contract standard. Clear, reliable, and self-directed.”
Peter Nanayakara — CEO & Co-Founder, ReadyTech Justice
“Nitzan took real pressure off me. He turned a chaotic backlog into a clear roadmap the business could rally behind, took over running the dev team, and brought a calm transparency to how we worked — then went on to lead the design and delivery of an entirely new product. Remarkably, he did all of it part-time.”
Simon Cusack — CTO, iConcept and iDeliver
“Nitzan led the design and build of our product from an idea in our heads to working reality — a compliance platform for multi-site retail businesses. He translated what we imagined into workflows that genuinely made sense, coordinated the whole effort with unusual clarity, and pushed back when he needed to — usually with a better, more practical alternative. Precise, communicative, and efficient from start to finish.”
Ross Gibson — Director of Leading Safety, and co-founder of teamready
“For fifteen years Nitzan has been my technical lead on our most demanding projects — from large, integrated campaigns spanning app, web and advertising, to complex custom tools like a visual product builder that generates instant quotes. Whether he does the work himself or steers a dev team, it lands on time and on budget — and he's my trusted sounding board for product and business strategy. I bring him in when it has to be right.”
Adrian Nelson — Founder, Utopia Creative

About

My work lives in the space between people, business and technology. What I do best is reframe a seemingly binary ('either/or') problem into something a team can move on — a habit shaped as much by training as a mediator and Alexander Technique teacher as by decades in software.

It's the perspective I bring to advisory and non-executive board roles.

Credentials

  • Master of IT Leadership, Deakin University
  • Accredited Mediator, Resolution Institute
  • Alexander Technique Teacher
  • NLP training
  • Guest lecturer, Victoria University Melbourne

Elsewhere

Paragliding and paramotoring, yoga, wildlife rescue, and my local repair café. Former oboist and instrument repairer.

Contact

Starting something — or stuck on something?

Send a note — I read everything myself.

nk@karni.net.au Phone LinkedIn NSW, Australia