Peter Abbott
Senior Platform Engineer
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Abbott is a Senior Platform Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building and automating resilient systems across finance and digital agencies from Wellington, New Zealand. He blends deep Java/Spring and J2EE roots with DevOps expertise in Docker, Chef, Packer and CI/CD, having driven Kafka infrastructure and developer-experience tooling at BNZ and platform work at Atomic.io. Comfortable as both hands-on implementer and technical architect, he has a track record of improving delivery pipelines, mentoring teams, and owning complex integrations and troubleshooting. Notably, he has moved between consultancy and in-house roles, repeatedly stepping into architecture and problem-solver positions during critical platform migrations and global CMS handovers. He emphasizes clean, testable code and automation, bringing practical operational insight to long-lived production systems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Computer Science, Bsc, Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington
English, German, Italian
Github Skills (88)
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testing10
rake10
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continuous-integration10
aws-waf10
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telemetry10
kitchen10
aws10
javascript9
monitoring9
acl9
lambda9
developer-tools9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
peterabbott/puppet-selenium
Aug 2016 - Jul 2021
Manages Selenium Server 2 - Standalone and Grid
Contributions:4 PRs, 40 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 11 months
standaloneselenium-webdriverselenium-servergridselenium
atomic-app/eslint-config-atomic
Oct 2021 - Jul 2024
Contributions:9 reviews, 36 PRs, 82 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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