Pieter Breed
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolPieter Breed is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cape Town with 14 years of experience building resilient, scalable systems across payments, telemetry and real-time analytics. He has a strong systems-thinking background—moving proofs-of-concept into production at scale, most recently delivering a vehicle telemetry streaming platform ingesting data from 25,000+ vehicles and supporting 1 Hz device updates. Pieter blends backend engineering (Clojure, Go), DevOps and SRE ownership—CI/CD, monitoring, infrastructure-as-code—to ensure high availability and fast incident recovery. He’s driven product-focused integrations from third-party APIs to unified query layers and has deep experience in payments platforms aimed at enabling economic growth in Africa. Trained in physics and mathematics, he brings rigorous analytical thinking to complex distributed systems and a track record of enabling teams and platforms to operate reliably in production.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Physical and Mathematical Analysis, BSc, Physical and Mathematical Analysis at University of StellenboschB.Sc. Physics and Mathematics, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, B.Sc. Physics and Mathematics, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Stellenbosch University
Afrikaans, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (180)
end-to-end-encryption10
pgp10
http-client10
chat10
client-server10
client-library10
async10
clojure10
vault10
keybase10
libevent10
http-server10
http-kit10
service-client10
secrets9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Afrolabs/afrolabs-clj
Aug 2021 - Mar 2025
Shared code for afrolabs clojure projects
Contributions:4 reviews, 10 PRs, 166 pushes in 3 years 8 months
pieterbreed/Dynamic-Json-for-.NET
Oct 2011 - Jul 2013
Contributions:28 commits in 1 year 9 months
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