Peter Nilson
Senior Software Engineer at ADG
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolPeter Nilson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cape Town with a decade of experience building secure, production-grade backend systems using Python, Django and increasingly Go. He has led payments and financial-product teams at Byte Orbit and designed a double-entry ledger and multi-cryptocurrency payment rails for an iGaming MVP, demonstrating deep domain expertise in financial systems and regulatory controls. As a founder and machine-learning practitioner he shipped an AI-powered video editor MVP and has hands-on experience managing full AWS stacks. He also built an NFT arbitrage bot in Go, reflecting strong blockchain and concurrent-systems skills beyond his web backend focus. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who mentors teammates, drives better design patterns, and proposes new tech directions that balance reliability with innovation.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia, Advanced Diploma, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia at City Varsity
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (63)
scraper10
extraction10
data-extraction10
crawler10
pii9
crawling9
metadata9
doubly-linked-list9
python8
price8
rsi7
currency-converter7
currency-exchange-rates7
html6
django-models6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
petenilson/zarspread
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Track the price difference of BTC on the South African Luno Exchange
Contributions:22 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
exchangeafricanethereumcurrency-convertersouth
petenilson/DSDownload
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:6 pushes in 4 months
threadoptimizationmulti-thread
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