Pete Callaghan
IT Director at Protem Solutions (Poland)
Greater Exeter Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPete Callaghan is an experienced IT director and software leader with two decades of delivering strategic technical solutions and building high-performing Agile teams across healthcare, travel, and enterprise software. He has repeatedly transformed team productivity and product quality by introducing contemporary development practices such as BDD and TDD, and has held senior roles from CTO and co-founder to IT director. Currently driving delivery and engineering structure at Protem Solutions, he combines hands-on system-level contributions (including CPU-affinity and systemd integration work on an open-source Volumio plugin) with outcomes-focused leadership. Based in Greater Exeter, he balances sustained professional energy and resilience under pressure with a passion for climbing and outdoor life that keeps his perspective sharp.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Maths and Computer Science, BA, Maths and Computer Science at Keele UniversityMarling Grammar School, Stroud
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Github Skills (16)
system-administration10
system10
administrator10
systemd10
affinity10
bash10
administration10
admin10
sys10
scripting9
plugin9
shell9
script9
configuration-management9
sh9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
volumio/volumio-plugins
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 38 commits, 11 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Pete primarily contributed to the `music_services_shield` plugin, adding core functionality to manage and configure CPU affinity for processes. They developed scripts to move processes to a user-defined CPU set and added configuration options for MPD and Spotify Connect. The user integrated the plugin as a systemd service to ensure it runs on boot and recreated the shield when processes are restarted, indicating a focus on system-level integration. The user also refactored the code and incorporated configuration changes for different system architectures.
petecallaghan/PopulationFitness
Jun 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:208 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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