Peter Bennett
Developer at MythTV
Bourne, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Bennett is a seasoned developer and systems architect with 11+ years of experience designing and deploying secure, high-availability web systems and services. He has led large-scale projects—most notably architecting JPMorgan Chase’s Global Entitlements platform serving 185,000 users—and built robust deployment and automation practices to ensure repeatable, reliable releases. A Pega PRPC Certified Lead Systems Architect, he combines deep Java/J2EE and Unix skills with practical security expertise (2-way SSL, multi-tier auth, encryption, SecurID) applied across enterprise and financial environments. Peter contributes to open-source media software as a MythTV backend developer, improving video playback and Raspberry Pi support—showing a hands-on approach to performance and hardware-specific issues. He also brings experience setting up and tuning application and web server infrastructure (WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache) and creating tools to mitigate third-party failures. Based in Bourne, Massachusetts, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a keen interest in system hardening and repeatable deployment.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of South Africa
Github Skills (16)
videojs10
media-playback10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
playback10
video-player10
decode9
decoder9
apidoc9
system-programming9
sys9
performance-optimization9
system9
api9
deco9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
MythTV/mythtv
Mar 2016 - Dec 2022
The official MythTV repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Media Playback Expert
Back-end Developer & Media Playback ExpertContributions:1 review, 595 commits, 27 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Peter made several contributions to improve the quality and functionality of video playback within the MythTV project. They focused on resolving bugs related to audio synchronization, deinterlacing performance, and handling of different codecs, particularly on specific hardware platforms like Raspberry Pi. Their work involved modifying core playback and decoding components to address issues such as lost audio, incorrect video display, and playback errors. In addition, they extended playback profile functionality and added support for the new V2 services API methods related to playback.
mythtv
bennettpeter/mythscripts
Apr 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:617 commits, 611 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
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