Peter Ibbotson is a Principal Developer based in London with over a decade of professional experience building robust C#/.NET systems, particularly in WPF and WCF for complex backend and desktop applications. He has steered mission-critical projects across industries—from energy trading platforms at Trayport to police body-worn video systems and financial annuity services—bringing strong SQL and Visual Studio expertise. A pragmatic architect with roots in low-level C/C++ and firmware, he pairs deep technical fluency with hands-on delivery and has led teams as Technical Director and MD. Peter contributes to notable open-source tooling, helping improve StyleCop Analyzers’ handling of C# copyright headers and XML escaping, showing attention to developer ergonomics and code quality. Colleagues value his steady, practical approach to maintaining legacy systems while evolving modern .NET codebases.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Queen Mary, U. of London
An implementation of StyleCop rules using the .NET Compiler Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 27 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Peter contributed to improving the StyleCop Analyzers project by fixing issues related to copyright headers in C# code files. Their work involved fixing multi-line comment handling, adjusting the code to replace only the copyright tag when appropriate and replacing the entire header on malformed headers. The user also implemented support for XML escaping within multi-line comments and created code and tests for SA1627.
Contributions:28 PRs, 94 pushes, 26 branches in 1 year 7 months
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