Peter Hicks
Director at Medicus Health Partners
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Hicks is a pragmatic systems consultant and software leader with 15+ years building and operating networked and data-driven systems, currently directing OpenTrainTimes Ltd. and serving as CTO of Railbuddy. He combines deep hands-on experience across legacy and modern infrastructure—from network engineering and low-latency trading projects to web-scale rail data services—with a consultancy mindset that sees problems from technical, operational and user perspectives. His long-running OpenTrainTimes project demonstrates practical open-source product thinking and sustained service delivery in a niche domain. Beyond software, he keeps clinical people-skills sharp through phlebotomy and vaccination roles, reflecting an unusual blend of technical rigor and frontline service. Based in Stony Stratford, he’s known for turning complex railway and networking challenges into pragmatic, auditable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Hertfordshire
English
Stackoverflow
43reputation
1kreached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (76)
ibm-mq10
zeep10
rendering9
cartography9
python9
docker-image9
mapnik9
java9
darwin9
monitoring8
gis8
container-image8
mq8
openhab8
software-defined-radio8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openraildata/openldbws-example-java
Nov 2018 - Nov 2024
Example code to use the OpenLDBWS in Java with Apache CXF
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 6 years
cxfjavaopenldbws
poggs/tdnet-to-json
Mar 2016 - Nov 2019
Convert TD.net XML messages in to a lightweight JSON format
Contributions:35 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
xml
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