Peter Bukva
Principal Engineer & Team Lead at Fetch.ai
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPeter Bukva is a Principal Engineer and team lead based in the Greater Cambridge area with eight years of focused experience in blockchain, distributed systems and high-performance C++ engineering. He currently leads blockchain projects at Fetch.ai and previously drove design and implementation across Fetch.ai’s v1 and v2 stacks, spanning low-level multithreading, cryptographic subsystems, VM design, sharding and cross-chain token bridges. Before that he built low-latency trading infrastructure at JPMorgan and shipped cross-platform, performance-critical software at Bloomberg and Siemens, demonstrating deep expertise across C++, Python, Rust, Solidity and cloud-native tooling. Peter combines systems-level architectural thinking with hands-on implementation and hiring/contractor management, routinely moving between detailed optimizations and product-level tradeoffs. He holds an M.Sc. in Solid State Physics and a Ph.D.-level background in superconductors, bringing a rigorous, research-informed approach to practical engineering problems. Colleagues describe him as someone who sees the big picture without losing appetite for the low-level detail that makes high-performance distributed systems work.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., High Temperature Superconductors, Ph.D., High Temperature Superconductors at Slovak Academy of ScienceM.Sc., Solid State Physics, M.Sc., Solid State Physics at Comenius University
English, Slovak, Czech, Russian
Github Skills (73)
python-client10
client-library10
firefox10
browser-extension10
fetch10
stargate10
nodes10
plug10
chrome-extension10
chrome10
ledger9
browser9
docker-build9
sdk9
ai9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pbukva/dummy_noob
May 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:10712 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
pbukva/fetchd
Nov 2020 - Oct 2024
Fetch.ai fork of wasmd project
Contributions:57 pushes, 47 branches, 30 tags in 4 years
rustfetchfetch-aiwasm
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