Summary
Peter Reid is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years' experience delivering cloud-native, Kotlin and AWS-based microservice platforms for the insurance sector. He has repeatedly led and scaled engineering squads at Liberty IT/Liberty Mutual, turning complex policy ecosystems into production-ready APIs and quoting systems deployed globally in months. Skilled in developer enablement, AWS CDK, TypeScript and Spring, he blends hands-on architecture with coaching to help teams ship resilient, secure services quickly. Beyond delivery, he has driven cross-team initiatives—from cyber security guilds to women-in-tech groups—and has a track record of successful knowledge handovers that preserve domain expertise. Based in Belfast, he combines deep cloud SME capabilities with a pragmatic focus on empowering product teams to accelerate business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Hons. Software Engineering with Placement, BEng Hons. Software Engineering with Placement at Queen's University Belfast
A-Levels Biology Mathematics and Physics, A-Levels Biology Mathematics and Physics at Friends' School Lisburn
Foundation Degree Software Engineering, Foundation Degree Software Engineering at Ulster University