Peter Parker
Head Of Software Engineering at Sprint Education
Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPeter Parker is a Head of Software Engineering and architect with 12+ years of experience leading teams to deliver high‑throughput transaction processing, complex data migrations, and performant database solutions. Based in Cheltenham, he combines hands‑on C# development and CI/CD expertise with strategic architecture work, recently steering architecture and delivery at Sprint Education. He has a track record of rescuing and rebuilding teams, introducing engineering principles, unit testing and documentation, and has led multi‑million item migrations and performance optimisations across insurance and financial systems. An active contributor to build and docs for notable .NET projects like SimpleInjector and ploeh’s blog repository, he brings practical DevOps and build automation experience to make releases reliable. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, data‑driven decisions that balance operational support with long‑term architectural quality.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at University of Portsmouth
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
msbuild10
net10
dotnet10
appveyor10
cicd10
asp-net10
entity-framework10
dependency-injection10
documentation10
architecture9
ef-code-first9
ioc-container9
aspnet-web-api9
aop9
asp-net-mvc9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
simpleinjector/SimpleInjector
Sep 2015 - Dec 2017
An easy, flexible, and fast Dependency Injection library that promotes best practice to steer developers towards the pit of success.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 41 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on configuring and maintaining the build process for the Simple Injector library. They created and modified the `appveyor.bat` file to manage the build, including NuGet package restoration, project building, and potentially code coverage integration. Contributions involved addressing build issues and adapting the build process to the AppVeyor environment, suggesting a strong focus on CI/CD and build automation. They also set up a build environment for .NET.
flexiblebest-practicepitinjectiondependency-injection
ploeh/ploeh.github.com
Jun 2014 - Dec 2015
ploeh blog 'source code'
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to documentation within the repository. Their commits focused on updating existing documentation files, including a file related to captive dependencies, and correcting wording. The changes include the addition of a comment, correction of minor textual issues, and updates to a post discussing testing container configurations and diagnostic services.
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