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john peter

@johnpeter1

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Senior software engineer and development team lead specializing in cloud back-end, performance, and team delivery.

Kenya

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What I'm looking for

I am seeking senior engineering or team-lead roles where I can drive cloud back-end reliability, mentor engineers, lead technical delivery, and work on scalable products in fintech, security, or cloud platforms.

I am a Senior Software Engineer and Development Team Lead with over 10 years of global experience across Europe, Asia, and Africa, combining hands-on engineering with four-plus years leading teams. I hold a BSc in Information Technology, a CISM certification, and am pursuing an MSc in Computer Science.

I have led and managed engineering teams, overseen onboarding, training, planning, estimation, and code reviews while delivering high-volume transaction systems for banking, fintech, security, agritech, and education clients. At Acronis I focus on performance and reliability of backup/restore for major services using Golang, containers, observability stacks, and cloud platforms.

I excel at technical ownership, project delivery, and building reusable modules to accelerate development. I seek roles where I can combine backend engineering, cloud-native architecture, and people leadership to drive reliable, scalable products.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Acronis

Jan 2023 - Present (2 years 10 months)

Improved performance and fixed bugs in backup and restore for Microsoft O365, Google Drive and Microsoft Teams services, enhancing reliability for enterprise backups.

Golang Docker Kubernetes MySQL PostgreSQL Redis RabbitMQ Prometheus Azure

Development Team Lead

Software Group

Oct 2019 - Dec 2022 (3 years 2 months)

Oversaw a team of 7 engineers across multiple projects, managing onboarding, training, planning, estimation and code reviews to improve delivery quality and velocity.

Team Leadership Project Management React Docker Kubernetes SQL Azure CI CD

Software Engineer & TDM

Software Group

Nov 2018 - Dec 2022 (4 years 1 month)

Developed high-volume transaction agency and mobile banking products, created reusable modules to accelerate delivery, and owned timelines, code reviews and technical meetings.

React Docker Kubernetes SQL MSSQL Azure Technical Delivery

Development Team Lead

Software Group

Jan 2018 - Nov 2018 (10 months)

Led a team of 5 to deliver bespoke web and mobile applications, handling resource planning, roadmap development, code reviews and client meetings to meet project goals.

Agile Project Management Roadmapping Resource Management C++.NET Core Angular Docker SQL

Software Engineer

Software Group

Oct 2014 - Dec 2017 (3 years 2 months)

Developed financial inclusion savings and loans solutions and automated banking processes to improve efficiency and reduce costs for local banks.

Java Android C++.NET Core PHP Angular Docker MySQL NoSQL

Software Developer Intern

Eclectics Intl.

Jun 2014 - Sep 2014 (3 months)

Built a farm web portal and contributed to a cross-platform mobile app for a local bank, delivering features to support farmer information and banking services.