Peter Newhook
Senior Software Engineer at HOOPP (Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan)
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolPeter Newhook is a senior full-stack engineer with 16 years of experience designing and delivering high-throughput, enterprise systems across banking, pensions, and startups. He combines server-side expertise in Java, Spring, Kotlin, Hadoop/Spark and .NET with hands-on front-end work in React, having architected microservices for a mobile app serving millions of daily users. At Scotiabank he led API design, performance testing, and reusable Spring tooling; at HOOPP he built Kotlin/Spring trade settlement software with a React front end. A pragmatic former CTO and co-founder, he also brings business-analysis and project-management chops from earlier roles, and contributes technical documentation to notable open-source projects such as Selenium’s WebDriver docs. Based in Toronto with a McGill commerce background, he’s known for stabilizing legacy platforms while introducing modern, testable architectures.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce, Information Systems and Finance, Bachelor of Commerce, Information Systems and Finance at McGill University
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Github Skills (15)
selenium-ide10
webdriver10
selenium10
documentation10
technical-writing10
selenium-webdriver9
csharp7
dotnet-core7
nunit6
rhino6
xamarin-android6
javascript6
clr6
ruby6
mvvmcross6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
SeleniumHQ/www.seleniumhq.org
Nov 2010 - Feb 2011
Old Selenium website and docs (deprecated)
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:14 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the documentation of the Selenium project, specifically the WebDriver component. Their commits focused on adding examples, clarifying usage, and restructuring the documentation for better organization and prominence. They updated the documentation to include C# examples and made revisions to address linking and code formatting errors.
selenium
pnewhook/MonoMvcMusicStore
Sep 2010 - Jan 2013
Contributions:2 commits in 2 years 4 months
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