Chad Petersen
Senior Software Engineer at Instruqt
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolChad Petersen is a polyglot senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building fintech and IT systems, currently driving engineering at Instruqt after senior and staff roles at Luno. He excels in systems-level languages and backend engineering—Go, Rust, C++, Java, Python and more—bringing both hands-on coding and technical leadership to payment and platform challenges. With dual degrees from the University of Cape Town in Computer Science and Information Systems, he combines strong CS fundamentals with business-oriented product thinking. Known for relentless curiosity, he deliberately seeks unfamiliar languages and paradigms to solve hard problems and broaden team capability. Based in Amsterdam, he blends startup agility with production-grade rigor across distributed systems and financial infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce Honours Information Systems, Bachelor of Commerce Honours Information Systems at University of Cape Town
English, Afrikaans, Dutch
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Github Skills (38)
data-repository10
google-cloud-platform10
dashboard10
health10
doh10
doi10
mocking10
google-cloud-build10
data-science9
testing9
generator9
docker9
golang9
mocks9
deprecated9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
instruqt/aws-nuke
Aug 2024 - Feb 2026
Nuke a whole AWS account and delete all its resources.
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 9 PRs in 1 year 5 months
auntyrona/covid19za
May 2020 - Aug 2020
COVID 19 Data and Dashboard for South Africa
Contributions:26 PRs, 182 pushes, 35 branches in 3 months
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