Peter Nham
Staff Software Engineer at Zendesk
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolPeter Nham is a Staff Software Engineer based in Melbourne with a decade of experience building cloud-native, distributed systems using Scala, Java/Kotlin, Kafka and Kubernetes. He rose through engineering roles at REA Group and Afterpay before joining Zendesk, where he progressed from Senior to Staff Engineer working on streaming and scalable backend platforms. Comfortable across functional programming and modern orchestration tooling, he pairs pragmatic system design with hands-on delivery of event-driven services and workflow technologies like Cadence/Temporal. With a formal background in economics and business information systems, he brings a product-minded perspective to technical trade-offs and stakeholder collaboration. An engineer who moves between deep implementation details and architecture, he’s known for shipping reliable systems in high-throughput environments.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Melbourne High SchoolBachelor of Commerce (Economics) and Bachelor of Business Information Systems, Bachelor of Commerce (Economics) and Bachelor of Business Information Systems at Monash University
Github Skills (68)
javascript10
nodejs10
css10
math10
react10
certification9
codebase9
self-healing8
cruisecontrol8
cadence8
business-logic8
kafka-producer8
zio-streams8
asynchronous8
kafka-cluster8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
petern-sc/intro-to-scala
Jun 2019 - Oct 2023
Contributions:1 push, 6 branches in 4 years 4 months
petern-sc/node-toy-robot
Feb 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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