Peter Wemm
Developer at FreeBSD
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Wemm is a veteran FreeBSD developer and systems engineer with 30 years of experience designing and maintaining OS platforms, source control, and large-scale deployment tooling, most recently continuing core FreeBSD work from the San Francisco Bay Area. He led kernel and userland porting to x86-64, ran OS platform and rapid security-response efforts at Yahoo!, and has deep expertise in reliability, redundancy, and automating operational toil. A pragmatic perfectionist, he balances big-picture distributed system design with low-level OS detail and a habit of returning to clean up loose ends. Beyond code, his contributions include FreeBSD documentation and backend maintenance, and he brings an unusual problem-solving intuition—evident in hobbies like reverse engineering, ham radio, and hang gliding that belie a self-described fear of heights.
30 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
EE/CS, EE/CS at Curtin University of Technology
English
Github Skills (7)
perl10
freebsd10
documentation9
web-content8
cgi8
system-administration7
html6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
freebsd/freebsd-doc
Nov 1995 - Jun 2018
FreeBSD doc tree (read-only mirror)
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Backend Developer
Technical Writer & Backend DeveloperContributions:204 commits in 22 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on updating the documentation for the FreeBSD project, specifically related to the developer home page. They modified the `homepage.pl` file to point to a new list and fixed the closing `<li>` tag. Additionally, the user made changes to the `cgi-style.pl` file, updating references to the FreeBSD website and removing obsolete elements related to older services. The work included adjusting the search controls and removing outdated components, demonstrating an understanding of the project's structure and ongoing maintenance requirements.
freebsdread-onlynetbsd
DarkHelmet433/refinedstorage
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
An elegant solution to your hoarding problem
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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