Peter Blain
Director - Product & AI at Firmus Grid
Tasmania, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Blain is a product-focused technology leader and engineer with 11+ years of experience applying AI, cloud and HPC to real-world products across startups, research infrastructures and banking. As Director of Product & AI at Firmus Grid he leads customer-facing IaaS/PaaS features, observability and agentic AI work for NVIDIA GPU clusters, blending hands-on engineering with product strategy. He holds a PhD in AI and a Master in Accounting, a rare combination that helps him balance rigorous research, commercial priorities and risk-aware decision making. His background includes building national-scale data federations for ocean science, implementing RL-driven recommendation systems for video products, and delivering mission-critical banking integrations. Based in Tasmania, he brings deep systems architecture experience and a pragmatic focus on turning advanced AI capabilities into usable, observable products.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems at The University of QueenslandDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science at Griffith University
Github Skills (28)
portal9
gis8
wfs8
geoserver8
wps8
geospatial7
java7
wcs7
wms7
maps6
geotools5
pipeline4
gml3
ogc3
golang3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pblain/s3-ftps-sync
Feb 2018 - Jun 2021
AWS Lambda function to synchronise S3 with a remote FTPS host
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
lambda-functionftpshostserverlessaws-lambda
pblain/this-is-only-a-test-repo
Aug 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 3 branches, 5 issues in 3 years 3 months
testing
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