Peter Lehwess
Senior Software Engineer at Blinkist
Offenburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolPeter Lehwess is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading web-focused engineering efforts, currently driving backend work for content delivery at Blinkist. He specializes in Ruby on Rails and modern web tooling (Hotwire, Turbo, Stimulus, Tailwind) and has a strong track record in backend engineering, system reliability, and migrating critical delivery systems. Peter has led cross-functional teams in fintech and telematics, introduced agile and QA best practices as a team lead, and mentors engineers through pair programming and coaching. As an open-source contributor he has improved server lifecycle tooling on projects like Foreman, touching provisioning, host management, and storage resilience—skills that reflect both ops sensibility and backend craftsmanship. Colocated in Offenburg, Germany, he combines product-focused engineering with a pragmatic emphasis on security, scalability, and reducing technical debt. He’s known for quickly integrating into teams and turning ambiguous requirements into robust, production-ready features.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology at RMIT University
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Github Skills (20)
api-rest10
ruby-rails10
foreman10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
rails10
provisioning10
ruby10
api10
rest-api10
infrastructure-management9
configuration-management9
gitlab6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
theforeman/foreman
Jul 2018 - Dec 2018
an application that automates the lifecycle of servers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 13 PRs, 114 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Foreman application. Their work involved refactoring the unattended controller, implementing fixes for provisioning template previews, and adding a host power state API endpoint. They also made changes to core components like the `host_finder` and `host_verifier` services, suggesting a focus on improving the host management capabilities. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to disk size adjustments, indicative of system administration and configuration tasks.
automatesmaasinfrastructure-managementvirtualizationhybrid-cloud
leewaa/openproject
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:47 pushes, 24 branches in 23 days
ruby-on-railsmanagement-systemproject-management-systemrailsweb-based
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