Pete Edwards
Senior Software Architect at WTC CONSULTING LIMITED
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPete Edwards is a senior software architect and hands-on Principal Engineer with 25+ years of experience and 11 years focused on modern web stacks, cloud, and semantic technologies. He architects and delivers pragmatic solutions—from a college data management system he built and now commercialises, to large linked-data platforms and QA test harnesses—bridging technical vision with day-to-day implementation. Equally comfortable in Node/Vue/MongoDB on AWS as in RDF/SPARQL and Java stacks, he’s led cross-border teams and driven DevOps and process improvements at organisations including AstraZeneca and Inrupt. A respected communicator and coach, he translates complex technical problems for diverse stakeholders and mentors engineers through delivery-focused leadership. Active in open source QA tooling, his contributions to the popular Karate test framework improved content-type handling and data fidelity, reflecting a knack for reliable, testable systems. His mix of long-term architecture work and practical integration experience makes him adept at turning complex data and integration challenges into maintainable products.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (MA) Kingdom Theology, Master of Arts (MA) Kingdom Theology at Westminster Theological CentreBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at The University of Manchester
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Github Skills (8)
automated-tests10
test-framework10
bdd10
api-testing10
test-automation10
javas9
java9
cucumber9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
karatelabs/karate
Feb 2021 - Mar 2022
Test Automation Made Simple
Role in this project:
Test Automation Engineer
Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Pete's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the `karate` testing framework. They added functionality to the `karate.range()` function, allowing for interval specification and reverse ordering. Furthermore, the user made changes to prevent auto-conversion of explicitly non-JSON/XML data and improved content-type handling in multiple areas of the framework, including logging and response parsing, which is confirmed by new tests. These changes indicate a focus on improving the framework's flexibility and accuracy.
load-testingapi-testingdeveloper-toolscucumbertesting-tools
solid-contrib/conformance-test-harness
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Harness used to run Solid conformance tests and generate reports
Contributions:30 releases, 233 reviews, 316 commits in 1 year 11 months
reportsconformance-testsconformancesolidharness
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