Peter Wells
Platform Engineer
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Wells is a platform engineer with over a decade of technical experience, specialising in building and operating resilient SaaS infrastructure using AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform. He has led infrastructure for Mergin Maps, cutting cloud costs and improving reliability by reshaping Kubernetes workloads, tuning PostgreSQL performance, and implementing custom scaling and observability solutions. A systems-focused problem solver, he pairs deep investigative instincts with pragmatic automation to reduce toil and make services easier for developers to use. His background spans founding a GIS consultancy, authoring widely used QGIS plugins and enterprise migrations, which gives him a rare mix of infrastructure, database and domain expertise in geospatial systems. Based in Sheffield, he thrives on untangling complex production issues and documenting design decisions so teams can sustainably run and evolve services.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering with Computing Engineering Computing, BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering with Computing Engineering Computing at University of Surrey
Github Skills (44)
qt10
qgis10
arcgis10
geo10
vuepress10
gis10
idris10
survey10
grav-plugin10
arcgis-runtime-sdk9
ios9
protected9
android9
documentation9
logging9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lutraconsulting/qgis-geocat-plugin
Nov 2015 - May 2020
Plugin for loading PostGIS layers based on a metadata search
Contributions:45 commits, 9 PRs, 42 pushes in 4 years 6 months
layerspostgismetadatametadata-search
lutraconsulting/qgis-moor-tools-plugin
Apr 2015 - Oct 2020
Tools for simplifying and automating common tasks for national parks and other protected areas.
Contributions:1 release, 22 commits, 1 PR in 5 years 6 months
nationalparkspythonprotectedsimplifying
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