Summary
Peter Metcalfe is a versatile consultant and engineer with nine years of focused software practice and decades of industrial automation experience, blending hands-on coding with practical hardware prototyping. Based in Burlington, Ontario, he runs Peter Metcalfe Consulting delivering data cleaning and analysis, web and mobile apps, wearable electronics prototypes, and tooling for clients including the University of Toronto and Canada Post. His technical toolkit spans Python, SQL, Bash, C, Elixir/Erlang, and Julia, plus databases and visualization stacks, and he has published 50+ technical articles for Linux Pro Magazine. Former roles at ABB combined people leadership, R&D prototyping, and business development in process control—skills he leverages to translate complex industrial requirements into pragmatic software and hardware solutions. An active hobbyist educator, he shares projects and datasets publicly on a blog, GitHub, and Kaggle, reflecting a commitment to reproducible, reusable engineering.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Chemical Engineering at University of Waterloo