Peter West
Team Lead at Global Relay
Ealing, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPeter West is a frontend-focused product engineer and team lead with 14 years of experience building high-performance React applications and shipping reliable web products. Currently leading a team at Global Relay, he combines hands-on engineering with people leadership, having progressed internally from senior developer to team lead. His background bridges academia and industry—holding an MEng in Computer Science and a PhD in Health Science—bringing a data-driven, research-informed approach to product decisions. Peter contributes to open-source tooling as a back-end developer (notably adding sorting functionality to a BibTeX cleaner), reflecting a willingness to tackle both UI and data-processing problems. Based in Ealing, he excels at translating complex domain requirements into pragmatic engineering solutions while mentoring teams to sustain performance at scale.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Health Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Health Science at University of Southampton
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Github Skills (10)
bibtex10
javascript10
code-formatting10
trigonometry6
math6
3d6
data-structure5
algorithms5
algorithm5
data-structures5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
FlamingTempura/bibtex-tidy
Dec 2017 - Dec 2022
Cleaner and Formatter for BibTeX files
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 299 commits, 191 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of a BibTeX file cleaner and formatter. Their primary contribution was implementing a sort option feature, which involved adding code to sort entries within BibTeX files. The user's commits centered on code changes within the JavaScript files, indicating a focus on back-end logic and functionality to improve data manipulation capabilities.
bibtex
BlazeByte/pspwxp
Apr 2014 - Jun 2019
Contributions:31 commits, 1 push in 5 years 3 months
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