Start with the business problem.
Partner with functional leaders to identify high-value opportunities, assess feasibility, and prioritize outcomes over novelty.
ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP / TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY / AI
Building
organizations.
Engineering platforms.
Creating impact.
I’m Peter Yanni, an engineering leader connecting people, technology, and business strategy to build organizations that deliver at scale.
01 / SELECTED IMPACT
Outcomes speak
louder than titles.
15+ years building customer-facing platforms and engineering organizations across Europe, APAC, and the US.
30+
Engineers led
Across international engineering organizations
14%
GMV uplift
Contribution from customer trust and platform initiatives
70%
Fewer fraud incidents
Across key markets
99.99%
Service availability
For mission-critical identity and protection services
Selected contributions from cross-functional initiatives and teams.
02 / ABOUT
From building software to building organizations.
I started my career as a software engineer, driven by curiosity about how systems work and how to make them better.
Over time, that curiosity expanded beyond architecture to the teams, organizations, and decisions that make great technology possible.
Today, I lead engineering organizations working at the intersection of commerce, identity, trust, and platform engineering. I bring together hands-on technical depth, organizational design, and close partnership with Product and Data.
I believe engineering is most valuable when technical excellence translates into better customer experiences, stronger teams, and sustainable business growth.
Explore my GitHub03 / HOW I LEAD
The principles behind
the work.
01
People create the advantage.
Great engineering starts with trust, clarity, and ownership. I develop leaders, empower teams, and create environments where people can do meaningful work and grow.
02
Technology serves outcomes.
Architecture and engineering practices are means to an end. I connect technical decisions to customer value, commercial impact, security, and long-term sustainability.
03
Simplicity enables scale.
Strong engineering organizations make deliberate trade-offs. I value clear boundaries, operational excellence, pragmatic innovation, and reducing complexity rather than simply managing it.
04 / AI FOR BUSINESS IMPACT
DELIVERY HERO · 2026
From AI potential to business value.
Leading AI product and workflow initiatives that connect business priorities with practical engineering. The focus: reduce operational friction, accelerate decisions, and build capabilities that can scale responsibly.
Build useful, reliable AI.
Bring together AI-powered insights, workflow automation, data integration, and agentic orchestration where the problem justifies the complexity.
Make adoption sustainable.
Establish repeatable delivery practices with human oversight, security, governance, and measurable operational value.
MY APPROACH
Choose the simplest delivery model that solves the problem—integrate existing tools where possible, engineer differentiated capabilities where necessary, and keep accountability with the business.
05 / SELECTED WORK
Complex challenges.
Meaningful results.
Selected work across platform strategy, AI, engineering excellence, and product building.
PLATFORM STRATEGY / CUSTOMER TRUST
Scaling identity and fraud prevention
Led engineering initiatives across authentication, identity, account scoring, and fraud prevention, contributing to a 70% reduction in fraud incidents across key markets.
AI / PRODUCT INNOVATION
Building intelligent trust platforms
Led the design of a global Ratings & Reviews platform integrating AI moderation and user-generated content insights, with a projected €200M GMV uplift.
ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE / ARCHITECTURE
Modernizing platforms for scale
At Rakuten, helped transition e-commerce systems toward Domain-Driven Design and containerized deployment, reducing deployment times by 40%.
FOUNDER / PRODUCT ENGINEERING
ImmoSlice — from idea to production
Building a digital real estate investment platform focused on accessibility, transparency, and data-driven decisions. Leading product vision, platform architecture, security, and end-to-end delivery.
Visit ImmoSlice06 / EXPERIENCE
Built through
experience.
A career spanning hands-on engineering, architecture, leadership, and entrepreneurship.
2020 — Present
Delivery Hero SE
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Leading international engineering organizations across customer platforms, identity, fraud prevention, and AI initiatives focused on operational and business outcomes.
ImmoSlice
Founder
Building a digital real estate investment platform from product vision through architecture and production.
2016 — 2020
Rakuten Deutschland
Software Architect
Platform modernization, domain-driven architecture, and large-scale e-commerce integrations.
2010 — 2016
Parcelbound · A15 · Bright Creations
Engineering & Technical Leadership
Early career spanning software engineering, team leadership, and system delivery.
07 / LET'S CONNECT
Great things start
with a conversation.
I'm always interested in exchanging ideas about engineering leadership, platform strategy, AI, and building teams that make a difference.
Get in touch