Peter Souter
Senior Sales Engineer at Datadog
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPeter Souter is a Senior Sales Engineer at Datadog with 13 years' experience bridging hands-on development, DevOps automation, and customer-facing technical strategy. He began as a full-stack developer and evolved into roles at Puppet and HashiCorp where he combined professional services, technical account management, and deep open-source contributions to infrastructure tooling. His GitHub work shows significant contributions to widely used projects—serverspec, Terraform’s Vault provider, Puppet modules and testing harnesses—demonstrating expertise in CI, cross-platform testing, and cloud auth integrations (notably GCP support in the Vault provider). Based in London, he excels at turning customer requirements into reliable automation and testable infrastructure, often improving test suites and CI for complex deployments. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that reduce ops friction while preserving developer velocity.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at Kings College LondonA Level, Computing, General Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Film Studies, A Level, Computing, General Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Film Studies at Colchester Sixth Form College
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Github Skills (66)
yum10
package-management10
testing10
puppet-bolt10
command-line-interface10
rspec10
acceptance-testing10
terraform10
gcp10
ruby10
automation10
sudo10
gemfile10
systemd10
digitalocean-api10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
voxpupuli/puppet-redis
Jun 2016 - Jun 2018
Puppet Module to manage Redis
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 103 commits, 190 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on adding and improving the test suite for the Puppet module. Their contributions involved writing new specifications, particularly for features like unixsocket, FreeBSD-specific parameters, and the `save_db_to_disk_interval` parameter. They also addressed puppet-lint issues and fixed Beaker test settings, including Docker configurations and acceptance tests. The user's efforts included adding acceptance tests to verify the correct functionality of the redis module, specifically by testing if the redis service is working.
linux-puppet-modulepuppet-moduleredispuppetcentos-puppet-module
hashicorp/terraform-provider-vault
Oct 2018 - Jan 2021
Terraform Vault provider
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 17 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the `terraform-provider-vault` repository by adding and modifying code related to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) authentication backend. They introduced new features for GCP authentication roles, specifically adding support for bound zones, regions, instance groups and labels. Their work also included the addition of corresponding tests to validate the new functionalities, ensuring the provider's reliability and functionality.
hashicorp-vaultprovidervaulthashicorpterraform
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