Peter Jones
Researcher at University of Tübingen
Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolPeter Jones is a seasoned researcher and software engineer with nearly two decades of hands-on experience building high-performance systems, teaching developers, and running his own consultancy. Currently a PhD student in Bioinformatics at the University of Tübingen, he combines academic rigor with practical engineering—having architected production fraud-prevention systems and a Haskell-based medical claims processor that handles millions daily. An open-source and functional-programming enthusiast, he has deep expertise in Ruby, Haskell, C++, and systems design, and he’s delivered training and courseware to beginner and enterprise audiences alike. As founder of Devalot.com and former instructor at DevelopIntelligence, he’s known for translating complex topics into effective workshops, books, and mentorship. Less obvious: his background ranges from low-level C++ streaming and monitoring systems (with patents) to parsing legacy COBOL definitions into modern pipelines, showing rare breadth across legacy and cutting-edge stacks. Based in Tübingen, he blends entrepreneurial drive with research-oriented problem solving to ship pragmatic, well-tested software.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Western Governors University
Italian
Github Skills (200)
zxcvbn10
firmware10
automation10
keyboard-layout10
html10
home-automation10
atmel10
nixpkgs10
mongodb10
ime10
css10
privacy10
python10
nix10
tray10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
pjones/emacsrc
Jun 2008 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2643 commits, 434 pushes, 24 branches in 14 years 9 months
pjones/byline
Jul 2017 - Jan 2023
Haskell library for creating command-line interfaces (colors, menus, etc.)
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 72 commits in 5 years 7 months
interfaceshaskell-libraryhaskell
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