Peter Meth
Software Architect at Givelify
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Meth is a seasoned Software Architect with over two decades of experience and 13 years in senior engineering and leadership roles, specializing in PHP, Symfony, and scalable backend systems. He led a major migration from a monolithic donation platform to domain-driven microservices at Givelify, drove the company’s Kubernetes and IaC adoption, and chaired the Architectural Review Board to standardize practices across teams. Comfortable both coding and strategy, he has re-architected billing systems, modernized legacy codebases, and contributed backend improvements to the open-source OpenCFP conference submission project. A committed mentor and communicator, he bridges product and engineering to turn ambiguous requirements into reliable, documented solutions. Off the clock he coaches youth baseball, reflecting a long-standing commitment to teaching and community leadership.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Journalism, Journalism at Carleton UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at York University
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405reputation
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Github Skills (14)
conferencing10
php10
paper10
mysql9
database-design8
twig7
git6
msysgit6
mink6
behat6
symfony6
git-hooks6
cygwin6
bdd6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
opencfp/opencfp
May 2013 - Feb 2017
Repo for OpenCFP project, a PHP-based conference talk submission system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on back-end development tasks within the PHP-based conference talk submission system. Their contributions included implementing user activation features, moving controller directories, and modifying bootstrap and templates to leverage configuration data. The user also worked on database schema changes, including seeding the required groups. Additionally, they made substantial changes to the application's core logic, especially around user management and form processing.
php-basedcall-for-papersphpconferencesconference-talk
cronpilot/cronpilot
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:21 reviews, 32 PRs, 41 pushes in 6 months
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