Peter Hollas
Technology Leader | Architect | Innovator
Professional Profile
An enthusiastic and experienced technology leader with a proven ability to innovate, architect, deliver and manage large scale international projects using leading edge tools and techniques. More than 20 years of experience in full stack enterprise architecture, security and systems administration in successful multinational companies. Focused on agile delivery and getting things done.
Highlights
- Created the database, UI, and data for the official world animal species register (zoobank.org).
- Hand-built an ML pipeline that ingested all 300k pages as images of the world's oldest biological journal, utilizing image processing, OCR, tokenization, stemming, lemmatization, decision trees, and semantic reasoning.
- Established and led engineering for APAC in a CTO-like role in one of the world's most successful SaaS companies during a period of intensive expansion and growth.
- Head of Engineering for Sweden for the research and development division of the Nordic's largest telco.
- Wrote the Telia Healthcare API and led the team working on the world's largest NB-IoT trial.
- Worked on various security research projects involving hardware, software, and embedded systems.
- Created a team from scratch and delivered a distributed global SMS trading hub that was requested by Google in 1 year, on time and to requirements.
- Worked on international fraud detection and built high-performance, resilient platforms for handling international scale traffic using LLMs and semantic technologies, as well as ScyllaDB and Cassandra.
Career Summary
Research & Development Manager
Haud AB, Uppsala, Sweden
Feb 2022 – Mar 2024
- Created a team from scratch and delivered a distributed global SMS trading hub, requested by Google, on time and to requirements within 1 year.
- Worked on international fraud detection and built high-performance, resilient platforms for handling international scale traffic using LLMs, semantic technologies, ScyllaDB, and Cassandra.
- Created a new R&D team focused on delivering innovation in the SMS security / A2P monetization space.
- Smarthub, a central platform for commercial partners to make SMS trading contracts with Telcos utilising Haud XChange gateways.
- An easily deployable JWT authenticated RBAC proxy gateway for wrapping microservices.
- An on-site data pipeline / ETL for training a Large Language Model (LLM) deep network for SMS classification.
- Data pipeline / ETL that processes most of Indonesia’s international CDR (Call Data Records) for caller fraud detection.
Senior Engineering Manager and Head of Engineering, Sweden
Division X, Telia Company, Solna, Sweden
Mar 2018 – Dec 2020
- Head of Engineering for Sweden in the research and development division of the Nordic's largest telco.
- Wrote the Telia Healthcare API and led the team working on the world's largest NB-IoT trial.
- Worked on various security research projects involving hardware, software, and embedded systems.
- As global Head of Engineering for Shared Technology and Head of Engineering for Sweden in Division X, responsible for driving innovation, strategy, governance, vision, financials, department management, coaching, mentoring, code review, recruitment and due diligence.
- Founded an engineering team with stakeholders across Division X.
- Internet of Things (IoT) R&D, including firmware development, CoAP, XMPP and MQTT.
- Founded Divison X API team and wrote the first deployments of Telia’s Healthcare API, Google Apigee Edge (NodeJS).
- Technical lead for Datapoint as a Service platform team in Oslo using AWS, Terraform, Docker, Python, Java. Backbone infra for the world’s largest NB-IoT trial (10k sheep).
Senior Product Development Engineer
Anaplan Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore
Feb 2014 – Mar 2017
- Established and led engineering for APAC in a CTO-like role during a period of intensive expansion and growth, scaling from startup to 800 people.
- Relocated from the UK to Singapore to help build the engineering team for APAC as part of the HQ founding team, reporting to VP Technical Operations in the US.
- Responsible for global SSO, member of the global security team, and managed the entire platform solo during US/UK off-hours.
- Primary technical operations management of the global cloud platform and DevOps for APAC.
- Led and delivered over 150 global IAM integration projects with some of the largest companies in the world, providing consultation and expert direction on identity infrastructure and strategy.
- Security due diligence, audit and representation including handling of customer security questionnaires and penetration tests. Adherence to SOC2 and alignment with ISO27k compliance practices.
Senior Software Engineer
Anaplan UK Ltd, York, UK
Oct 2012 – Feb 2014
- As part a part of the platform development team, responsible for architecture, implementation and release of components within a multi-tenanted in-memory cloud architecture.
- Development of company proprietary Java calculation engine components, cloud scaling, security components and enterprise service integrations. Jira based agile test driven development environment.
Software Engineer / Systems Administrator
Thomson Reuters, IP and Science Division. York, UK.
2002 – 2012
- Chief architect for zoobank.org, creating the database, UI, and data for the official world animal species register.
- Hand-built an ML pipeline that ingested 300k pages as images of the world's oldest biological journal, utilizing image processing, OCR, tokenization, stemming, lemmatization, decision trees, and semantic reasoning.
- Chief architect of the world’s most comprehensive species names database (organismnames.com).
- Architecture of J2EE workflow integration interfaces for Temis semantic Expert System.
- Architecture, development and operation of automated NLP lexer/parser that was successfully used to digitise over 80,000 pages (110 years) of archived journal for sale as a digital product.
Skills
Languages
- Java
- Python
- Rust
- C
- C++
- C#
- Node.js
- Go
AI/ML
- Pytorch
- Tensorflow
- Langchain
- Scikit-learn
Frontend
- Svelte
- React
- Angular
- Vue.js
Databases
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- ScyllaDB
- Cassandra
- MongoDB
Cloud/DevOps
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
Certifications
- ISC2 CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional
- CSA CCSK Certificate in Cloud Security Knowledge
- DataStax Java Development with Apache Cassandra
- APMG AgilePM DSDM Atern Certified Agile Project Manager
- APMG PRINCE2 Certified Project Manager
- Certified Anaplanner, Enterprise Financial Planning and Modelling fundamentals.
Education
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
MSc Computing Science
BSc (hons) Environmental Science and Agricultural Ecology 2.1