Peter Houghton
Tech Advisor For BSS Advisory Clients at BSS Adisory
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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SeniorPeter Houghton is a seasoned technology leader and advisor with over a decade of international experience designing IT strategy, modernising infrastructure, and delivering digital transformation across APAC and Europe. He has led cross-regional teams and scaled engineering organisations in industries from gaming and forex to FMCG and logistics, routinely turning monolithic release cycles into frequent agile deployments. As CTO he has driven multimillion-dollar cost optimisations and restructures while embedding QA, DevOps and cybersecurity practices that strengthened operational resilience. Now advising BSS clients from Dubai, Tbilisi and Bangkok, he bridges executive vision and hands-on delivery, mentoring teams and negotiating vendor outcomes to align tech with commercial goals. An active freelancer on payments, TestOps/DevOps and AI with a fondness for Python, he combines pragmatic engineering craft with strategic programme leadership. Less obvious: he pairs large-scale programme delivery experience with grassroots team coaching and a proven willingness to "roll up his sleeves" to unblock delivery.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (21)
sepa7
scoring7
banking7
python4
swift4
flask3
mkdocs2
mx2
server2
html2
command-line2
hug2
http1
github1
devsecops1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
phoughton/rubysphero
Apr 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 3 years 11 months
phoughton/grim_test
Apr 2020 - Jul 2024
An implementation of the GRIM test in python
Contributions:13 PRs, 64 pushes, 13 branches in 4 years 3 months
pythongrim
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