Stéphane Peter is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 26 years building cross-platform systems from UNIX servers to iOS, macOS, watchOS and Android apps. As President & CEO of Catloaf Software and former senior engineer at Codehost and Loki, he combines deep UNIX/Linux systems expertise, low-level C/C++ and shell tooling with modern mobile and cloud-native development. He is an active open-source contributor—helping maintain the widely used makeself installer and improving AudioKit and AudioKitSynthOne for Swift compatibility and iOS audio UI—showing a rare mix of systems, audio, and mobile skills. Comfortable in DevOps and cloud stacks (AWS, GCP, Firebase, Cloudflare), he also brings product instincts from shipping commercial printing and mobile apps. Based in Los Angeles, Stéphane pairs decades of portable Unix experience with hands-on app development and developer-facing tooling.
26 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at ESSI - Ecole Supérieure en Sciences Informatiques (Sophia-Antipolis)
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at Université Côte d'Azur
Associate’s Degree, Computer Science, Associate’s Degree, Computer Science at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
A self-extracting archiving tool for Unix systems, in 100% shell script.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:11 releases, 28 reviews, 317 commits in 23 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Stéphane primarily focused on maintaining and enhancing the Makeself tool, a shell script used for creating self-extracting archives. Their contributions included adding options for symlink handling, noexec, and tar arguments. They also made improvements to file ownership, encryption, and checksum validation within the tool. The user's work focused on improving functionality, fixing bugs, and expanding the tool's capabilities.
Contributions:548 commits, 9 PRs, 491 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Stéphane primarily contributed to the AudioKitSynthOne iOS application, modifying UI components, and implementing features within the app. They addressed issues in the touch-pad and pitch wheel views, updated the mailing list integration, and refactored code related to MIDI and keyboard functionality. Furthermore, they made adjustments for size and incorporated Swift 4.2 and 5 compatibility fixes.
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