Peter Mbanugo

Keynotes · Conference Talks · Technical Workshops

Public Speaking & Engineering Workshops

I speak at international engineering conferences and lead hands-on workshops on concurrency, low-latency and high-throughput systems, fault-tolerant architectures, and web performance.

Current Focus Areas

Signature Talk & Workshop Topics

Concurrency & Runtime Design

Asynchrony & Programming Multi-Core Computers

How to achieve massive multi-core concurrency using pure state machines, isolates, and shared-nothing thread-per-core architectures.

Low-Latency & Reliability

The Physics of Backpressure & Tail Latency (P99)

Why unbounded queues turn traffic spikes into latency death spirals, and how to engineer bounded queues, load shedding, and feedback loops that keep systems responsive under extreme load.

High-Throughput Backends

Mechanical Sympathy in Web & Systems Languages

Practical techniques for pushing runtime performance to hardware limits—from memory layout and cache-aware data structures to fault-tolerant distributed workflows.

Conferences, Livestreams & Podcasts

Selected Appearances

P99 CONF 2026
Conference Talk

Multi-Core Without the Trilemma: Escaping Async/Await, Mutexes, and GC

Explores the 'Isolates and Effects' pattern for achieving multi-core concurrency in non-GC languages (C, Zig, Odin) mapped onto a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture for Actor-like fault tolerance with native low-latency performance.

Livestream with Nick Taylor
Livestream

Building Reliable Systems Using Temporal

JSConf Colombia 2023
Conference Talk

Overcoming the complexities of Bash scripts, by harnessing the power of JavaScript

Live session
KubeHuddle 2022
Workshop

Building event-driven, serverless functions in Kubernetes

Live session
This is Tech Talks
Podcast

How to build a serverless app platform on Kubernetes (Knative)

JSConf EU 2017
Conference Talk

Building apps with empathy for the next billion internet users

Live session
Views on Vue (podcast) Episode 035
Podcast

Real-time Application State Synchronization

React RoundUp 031 (podcast)
Podcast

“Real-time Editable Datagrid In React” with Peter Mbanugo

Bring a Deep-Dive Workshop to Your Engineering Team

I deliver tailored workshops and advisory sessions for engineering teams on concurrency models, tail-latency optimization, high-throughput Node.js/TypeScript, and fault-tolerant systems design.

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