Peter Lamut
Application Platform Engineer
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Top SchoolPeter Lamut is an Application Platform Engineer with over two decades of software engineering experience and 11 years focused on building scalable, resilient backend systems. He has a strong track record reducing latencies and database load at trading platforms, migrating massive order logs to DynamoDB, and optimizing on-chain data pipelines to cut processing times from hours to minutes. A former core maintainer of Google Cloud Python client libraries (BigQuery and Pub/Sub), he has shipped stability and performance fixes for widely used open-source tooling and even wrote a Jupyter cell-magic parser to solve tricky argument parsing edge cases. Peter pairs deep technical rigor—especially in Python, distributed systems, and SQL—with mentoring and process improvements, and is known for pragmatic problem-solving informed by a fondness for math and logic. Based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, he balances hands-on engineering with clear communication and a dash of good humor.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer and Information Science, Master's degree Computer and Information Science at Faculty of Computer and Information Science, LjubljanaGimnazija BežigradEconomist Economics, Economist Economics at Ekonomska šola Celje, Višja strokovna šola / Vocational School of Economics
English, German, Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian
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Github Skills (23)
asynchronous10
google-cloud-platform10
pytest10
python10
multithreading10
async10
gcp10
thread10
hyper-threading10
error-handling10
threaded10
pubsub10
grpc10
test-automation10
message-queue9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/python-pubsub
Apr 2019 - Jan 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:139 reviews, 96 commits, 185 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Peter contributed to the development of the PubSub library, focusing on improvements to the subscriber functionality. Their work involved refactoring the subscriber scheduler and implementing fixes for streaming pull manager related to retry errors, callback errors, and flow control. They also made updates to improve the handling of message processing and shutdown procedures within the streaming pull manager.
googleapis/python-bigquery
Jul 2019 - Dec 2021
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:390 reviews, 165 commits, 236 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Peter focused on enhancing the BigQuery client library, adding the `bqstorage_client` parameter and related functionality to several methods like `QueryJob.to_arrow()` and `RowIterator.to_arrow()`, to enable BigQuery Storage API. They also implemented tests to ensure the compatibility and correctness of new features. Furthermore, the user fixed bugs and updated several tests, demonstrating a strong emphasis on code quality and reliability. The user also implemented a new cell magic parser.
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