Peter Lafferty
Customer Solutions Engineer at Google
Ireland
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Top SchoolPeter Lafferty is a seasoned software engineer and customer solutions specialist with 11 years of hands-on experience building web, native and hybrid applications, currently solving technical challenges at Google. He has led and scaled mobile and backend teams at Hostelworld, driving migrations from PhoneGap to native iOS/Android, steering an Obj‑C to Swift transition, and shaping RESTful APIs and architecture. Comfortable from database schemas to mobile UI, he applies BDD/TDD, CI, performance optimisation and SOA principles to deliver reliable, PCI‑compliant products at scale. Known for getting "hands dirty" — coding, debugging arcane issues, writing docs or gathering requirements — he pairs technical depth with strong cross‑team communication and stakeholder engagement. He brings a pragmatic leadership style informed by managing teams of up to 11 developers and defining technical roadmaps across product, QA and systems. Based in Ireland, he blends platform versatility (iOS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Apache/Nginx) with a track record of turning complex requirements into maintainable, production systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Applied Science / Computing, 2.1, BSc, Applied Science / Computing, 2.1 at Dublin Institute of Technology
French, Irish, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
searchable7
xcode6
ios6
zend-framework6
asset-catalog6
netbeans6
phpunit6
dictionary5
metadata4
emoji4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
peterlafferty/Emojirama
Feb 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:51 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 1 year 1 month
dictionaryemojisearchable
google-marketing-solutions/causmos
Nov 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:34 reviews, 1 PR, 4 branches in 6 months
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