The Team

The engineers behind every remap

Smart Tuning is a team of qualified engineers — not laptop jockeys. Every map that leaves our building is written and signed off by a named engineer with credentials to match.

Leadership

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Martin Polzleitner
Founder & CEO

German-born motorsport engineer with 22 years in ECU calibration. Former factory tuner for a WRC privateer team, Martin founded Smart Tuning in 2020 to bring OEM-grade tuning to New Zealand.

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Terrance Ethan
Co-Founder & Managing Director

Ex-heavy diesel fleet manager. Terrance built Smart Tuning's commercial and agricultural division from the ground up and personally oversees every fleet contract.

Engineering team

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Hemi Wārena
Senior Calibration Engineer — Petrol
Auckland

MotorSport NZ Cat 5 licence holder. Specialises in turbocharged petrol platforms (EA888, B58, K20, 4B11T).

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Priya Menon
Senior Calibration Engineer — Diesel
Auckland

MEng Mechanical. Ranger, Hilux, Amarok, Cummins and Duramax specialist. 6,000+ commercial diesel remaps.

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Jack O'Sullivan
Heavy Diesel & Truck Engineer
Christchurch

10 years OEM diagnostics at Scania NZ. Leads our truck & bus mapping across the South Island.

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Sione Fifita
Plant & Agricultural Engineer
Hamilton

Ex-Gough CAT technician. Cat, Komatsu, John Deere and Case IH specialist.

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Ava Whittaker
Dyno & R&D Engineer
Wellington

Runs our Mainline hub dyno. Owner of an obscene amount of pull-print folders.

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Daniel Nakamura
TCU & Electronics Engineer
Christchurch

Gearbox tuning lead — DSG, ZF 8HP, Aisin AWF8, JATCO. Also handles immobiliser and key programming.

We're hiring

Calibration engineer — Auckland

Diesel or petrol background, at least 3 years hands-on ECU work. Drop us a line at careers@smarttuning.co.nz.