Peter Williams
Lead Developer - Enabling Technologies at PaperCut
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolPeter Williams is a Lead Developer with two decades of systems engineering experience across Australia, the USA and Sweden, currently focused on enabling technologies at PaperCut. He combines deep expertise in new product development, embedded-to-cloud architectures, and efficient processing of semi-structured data with hands-on skills in Python, Go and C++. Peter has driven production-grade PDF/PDL analysis and transforms—shipping watermarking, grayscale/duplex conversion, print back-ends and archive tooling that handle dozens of page description languages. His work on PDF text extraction and deterministic sorting has also translated into open-source contributions improving text bounding box extraction and encoding/color-space handling in a widely used Go PDF library. Comfortable spanning algorithm research, systems optimisation and test automation, he delivers on-time, multi-faceted software projects while bridging development and product management concerns. Based in Melbourne, he pairs academic study in DSP and signal processing with practical experience in imaging and machine learning to solve unusual document and print workflow problems.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate (online course), Certificate (online course) at Stanford UniversityDigital Signal Processing, Digital Signal Processing at CourseraCompleted, Completed at CouseraThe University of MelbourneExecutive Certificate, Executive Certificate at Monash University
Swedish, English
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Github Skills (8)
text-extraction10
pdf-generation10
pdf-manipulation10
pdf10
go10
algorithm6
flood-fill6
graphic6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
unidoc/unipdf
Jul 2019 - Jul 2020
Golang PDF library for creating and processing PDF files (pure go)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 11 PRs, 89 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on enhancing the text extraction capabilities of the PDF library. They implemented and debugged functionality related to text bounding box extraction and column recognition. The user also addressed several bugs and made improvements to the handling of various encoding types and color spaces within the PDF processing pipeline, ensuring better compatibility and functionality. Furthermore, they contributed to making the sorting of text elements more deterministic.
signingpure-gopdf-generationpdf-parserpdf-document
peterwilliams97/ml_class
Oct 2011 - Dec 2011
Contributions:31 commits in 1 month
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