Summary
Pete Slater is a Scala software consultant with nine years of professional experience delivering resilient, test-driven systems for public sector and enterprise clients. Currently contracted at HMRC through Equal Experts, he helps build and maintain Scala-based Tax Platform APIs and has a strong track record of shipping CI/CD-driven microservices and full-stack features. An advocate of Test Driven Development and developer-owned infrastructure, Pete pairs Scala and React expertise with hands-on DevOps across AWS, OpenStack, Terraform and container platforms. He’s delivered serverless solutions, database migrations, and analytics dashboards, and helped launch Sky Mobile where he shaped the project’s continuous delivery and microservices architecture. A longtime Linux user and Vim enthusiast since 2000, he brings pragmatic tool fluency and a preference for quick automated feedback loops that reduce production issues.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer