Peter Grainger
Senior Technical Account Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Grainger is a Senior Technical Account Manager and AWS builder with over a decade of hands-on experience designing secure, cloud-native systems and improving developer experience across enterprises and SMBs. He blends application security expertise with infrastructure automation—Terraform, Docker, ECS and CI/CD—to help organisations reliably run distributed workloads at scale. At AWS he advises customers on operationalising cloud value, and his background as an AWS architect and consultant spans roles at Arup, Sage and government projects focused on secure, test-driven delivery. An active contributor to open-source (including infrastructure and auth work on the Speckle Server), he brings practical DevOps and backend chops alongside clear technical writing as a published technical author. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with a knack for translating complex security and deployment needs into maintainable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ponteland High SchoolCombined Honours: Computer Science and Mathematics Mathematics and Co, Combined Honours: Computer Science and Mathematics Mathematics and Co at Aston University
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
4,787reputation
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89answers
6questions
ssl
top-1%
javascript
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authentication
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Github Skills (21)
docker10
ssl10
back-end-development10
http10
authentication10
dockers10
nodejs10
backend10
javascript9
server-configuration9
user-authentication9
cicd8
mongodb6
exec6
child-process6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
specklesystems/speckle-server
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
The Speckle Server, Frontend, 3D Viewer, & other JS utilities.
Role in this project:
DevOps & Backend Engineer
DevOps & Backend EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 8 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the server's infrastructure and authentication features. They implemented Docker configurations for the frontend and server, enhancing deployment and containerization. They also added Azure AD authentication strategies to the login system, improving the authentication options. Additionally, they made adjustments to the local auth strategy and allowed for saving objects to S3 in different regions.
frontend-serverinteroperability3d-vieweraecversion-control
peterjgrainger/action-create-branch
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
Github action to create a branch
Contributions:7 releases, 1 review, 23 commits in 3 years 3 months
release-managementnrwl-nx
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