Peter Van Garderen
Founder CTO at Iona Systems Ltd.
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Van Garderen is a founder-CTO and AI researcher with 16 years of experience building standards-driven digital archives, blockchain-native record systems, and privacy-focused AI tooling from Greater Vancouver. He has repeatedly spun research into production: founding Artefactual and open-sourcing flagship archives platforms (AtoM, Archivematica), then incubating Orcfax and Landano to apply ISO-compliant recordkeeping on Cardano for archival and land-rights use cases. His work blends archival science, secure decentralized ledgers, and applied AI to automate retention scheduling, appraisal, and sensitive-data detection while preserving provenance and compliance. Peter combines hands-on engineering and product leadership with deep standards expertise and a track record of enabling underserved communities through technical innovation. An oft-overlooked strength is his ability to translate archival research prototypes into sustainable service companies and open-source ecosystems.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Software Engineering, Certificate, Software Engineering at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor, Arts, Bachelor, Arts at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (100)
sublime-text10
sublime10
rest9
ipfs9
sample-data9
cardano9
crawler9
scrapy9
archives9
reference-implementation9
blockchain9
filecoin9
obsidian9
golang8
plutus8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cardanorealfi/charter-documents
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
peterVG/peterVG.github.io
Aug 2020 - Sep 2023
Contributions:65 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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