Peter Metz
LF Decentralized Trust Technical Advisory Council
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Metz is a polyglot software leader with 12 years of experience building end-to-end systems—from PCB soldering and mobile apps to cloud-native distributed systems—now serving as an elected member of the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust Technical Advisory Council. He has led multinational engineering teams, driven major production improvements (cutting incidents ~60% and increasing ingestion throughput 900%), and turned prototypes into flagship open-source projects and two patents. A longtime mobile engineer promoted to lead the UBS Mobile Banking build, he also optimized critical replication and serialization paths across iOS/Android and backend services. An active open-source contributor (1000+ stars, work across Kubernetes, Zipkin, Cordova and more) and IEEE-published researcher, he combines deep systems troubleshooting with product-minded architecture, even authoring an S3 Jaeger storage plugin that slashed telemetry costs. Based in San Francisco, he pairs practical engineering (including low-level performance fixes) with strategic open-source partnerships for Fortune Global 500s.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Engineering Information Technology, A - GPA: 3.62, Bachelor's Degree, Engineering Information Technology, A - GPA: 3.62 at Obuda UniversityNanodegree, Artificial Intelligence, Nanodegree, Artificial Intelligence at Udacity
English
Github Skills (14)
mobile10
javascript10
browser10
cordova10
html9
css9
csharp3
c-language3
javas3
objective-c3
dotnet-core3
java3
nodejs3
cprogramming-language3
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cordova-plugin-splashscreen
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Apache Cordova Plugin splashscreen
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on enhancements to the splash screen functionality within the Apache Cordova browser platform. Their work included ensuring proper data type handling for the splash screen delay, implementing the `AutoHideSplashScreen` configuration option, and refining the splash screen's appearance and behavior with fade-out transitions. These improvements included addressing potential issues like re-entrancy and integrating a high `z-index` for better UI integration. The changes focused on improving the user experience and addressing edge cases within the browser implementation.
objective-ccordovaapache-cordovajavascriptapache
hyperledger-cacti/cacti
Oct 2019 - Dec 2022
Hyperledger Cacti is a new approach to the blockchain interoperability problem
Contributions:35 releases, 3113 reviews, 522 commits in 3 years 1 month
hyperledgerdltconsensusapproachcactus
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