John Peterson
Chief Technology Officer at Sophos
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolJohn Peterson is a disciplined, hands-on technology executive and current CTO at Sophos with 12 years of senior engineering leadership focused on cybersecurity products and cloud platforms. He has a track record of scaling high-performance teams and product lines—from leading Sophos Central and messaging security to driving AI vision and technical strategy across the company. Previously he led engineering for Carbonite’s endpoint, server and SaaS offerings and earlier honed his .NET and SharePoint expertise in consulting and product roles. Known for blending product sensibility with operational rigor, he consistently pushes teams to deliver measurable security outcomes while modernizing architectures. Based in Greater Boston, he pairs a BS in Management Information Systems with deep practical experience shipping mission-critical enterprise and cloud systems. An understated strength is his habit of surfacing engineering-driven product innovations that reduce operational risk while enabling faster feature delivery.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Management Information Systems, BS Management Information Systems at University of Vermont
Github Skills (6)
activity-tracking10
requirements-management8
web-application7
rad7
project-planning5
lti3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
Magenic/Badge-Application
Jan 2014 - Mar 2014
An activity tracking and awarding framework for enterprise gamification programs.
Contributions:28 commits in 1 month
activity-trackinggamificationradrequirements-managementawarding-framework
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