Pete Cornish
Senior Director, Head Of Engineering At Deloitte Digital UK
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPete Cornish is a senior engineering leader with 12+ years of hands-on and strategic experience delivering bespoke digital systems at Deloitte Digital, now serving as Senior Director and Head of Engineering for the UK. He began as a software engineer and progressed through technical architect and lead roles, combining deep Java/Android expertise and systems-integration know-how with solution architecture and cloud/mobile delivery. Pete coaches and scales high-performing teams, bridging designers, analysts and engineers while translating complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders. An active contributor to API management open source (notably backend improvements to apiman’s gateway and rate-limiting), he brings a pragmatic performance and concurrency mindset to platform design. Known for debunking conventional wisdom, he blends software craftsmanship with enterprise delivery experience across retail banking, mobile, portal and ESB integrations.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
1st Class, BSc., Computer and Business Studies, 1st Class, BSc., Computer and Business Studies at University of Warwick - Warwick Business SchoolMerchant Taylors' School
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Github Skills (25)
api-management10
apidoc10
hazelcast10
java10
javas10
api10
api-gateway10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
caching9
rest-api9
virtual-machine8
regex8
unit-testing8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
apiman/apiman
Jan 2016 - Apr 2020
Extensible and flexible API Management. Add your own functionality with simple Java plugins.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 22 PRs, 26 comments in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Pete primarily contributed to the API Management platform's backend functionality. Their work included enhancing the gateway's HTTP connector with features like redirect control and the addition of new HTTP verbs (HEAD, OPTIONS, TRACE). Additionally, the user refactored the URL whitelist policy by precompiling URL patterns for performance gains, externalizing messages to a resource bundle and improving concurrency, and implemented a Hazelcast implementation for rate limiting and shared state. These changes improved the core functionality, maintainability, and scalability of the API gateway.
api-gatewayapimavenapi-managerjvm
outofcoffee/apiman-plugins
Mar 2016 - Apr 2020
A repository for official apiman plugins.
Contributions:29 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 2 months
apiminecraftpluginapimanjetty
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