Peter Evans
Senior Full Stack Engineer, Automation
Falmouth, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorPeter Evans is a Senior Full Stack Engineer based in Falmouth with over a decade of professional experience and an 18-year history of building web systems. He currently focuses on automation and application tooling at Baserow, contributing to its open-source no-code database and shipping backend features like date filters and robust file handling. Previously he led engineering at Camayak, growing the product to tens of thousands of users and building the REST API and integrations from scratch. He also runs a contracting business, Picklepete, helping startups with Python backend engineering, and has contributed notable features to community projects such as pyicloud. Comfortable across the stack, Peter blends pragmatic product-focused development with a long-standing commitment to maintainable, well-tested backend systems.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
Stackoverflow
75reputation
21kreached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (17)
postgresql10
python10
api-design10
django10
calendars10
calendarkit10
calendar-view10
http-request10
restful-api9
database8
databases8
no-code8
alternative7
airtable7
google-sheets6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
picklepete/pyicloud
Dec 2012 - Oct 2014
A Python + iCloud wrapper to access iPhone and Calendar data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 5 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on developing and expanding the functionality of the `pyicloud` library, specifically for interacting with the iCloud service. Their work included implementing core features like accessing iPhone status, location data, and calendar events. They added new endpoints for features such as playing sounds and activating lost mode. They refactored the code by re-using the service root URI, and addressing PEP8 fixes, while also including more detailed information about calendar events.
pythoncalendariphoneioscalendar-data
bram2w/baserow
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
The official repository is hosted on https://gitlab.com/bramw/baserow. Baserow is an open source no-code database tool and Airtable alternative.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the backend codebase, implementing and testing new features related to date filtering functionality. Their work included adding filters for "in this week," "in this month," and "in this year" within the Baserow application. The user also focused on improving file handling, specifically addressing URL parsing and file name extraction, alongside various tests to ensure correct behavior for file uploads and validations. The changes are focused on Django backend and related unit testing.
no-code-databasemysqlno-codesqllow-code
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