Peter Edwards
Global Public Policy & Stakeholder Management Director At Reckitt
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Edwards is a seasoned corporate affairs and public policy leader with 17 years’ experience shaping reputation, stakeholder engagement and policy strategy across healthcare, FMCG, defence and sustainability sectors. As Global Public Policy & Stakeholder Management Director at Reckitt he combines board-level counsel with hands-on delivery of integrated communications that meet business and reputational goals across emerging and established markets. His background includes senior roles at RB, BAE Systems and AstraZeneca where he led international campaigns on complex issues from oncology communications to cyber/defence positioning and corporate tax transparency. Known for building supportive networks of external influencers, he also champions corporate transparency and purpose, having publicly engaged on gender pay gap and tax strategy debates. A detail-oriented operator, he brings unusual technical curiosity to his remit—evidenced by substantive contributions to the RocksDB open-source project on performance and data-integrity fixes—bringing a pragmatic systems mindset to communications challenges. Based in England with a BA in Economics from The University of Manchester, he thrives on sharing best practice across markets and disciplines.
17 years of coding experience
BA Hons, Economics, BA Hons, Economics at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (14)
debugging10
databases10
storage-engine10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
performance-optimization10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
fileio9
file-access9
file-handling9
file-processing9
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/rocksdb
Jul 2016 - Sep 2021
A library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 16 commits, 21 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to performance improvements, bug fixes, and code enhancements within the RocksDB project. Their work includes optimizing the `ldb load` process by leveraging `ifstream`, addressing issues in the `log_write_bench` utility by fixing record size and the `-bytes_per_sync` option, and improving the `sst_dump` tool. They also addressed memory management issues and implemented crucial fixes related to data integrity and read-only mode, showing a strong understanding of the database's internal workings.
key-value-storedatabasestorage-engine
thatsafunnyname/memcached
May 2017 - Jan 2025
memcached development tree
Contributions:8 pushes in 7 years 9 months
memcachedmysql
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