Peter Brownlow

Background

About Peter Brownlow

Increasingly a specialist in platform engineering via migrating hundreds of codebases towards code consistency & fixing up large volumes of code that has been difficult to maintain. Until recently this was hand-written by hundreds of engineers in many different teams with little regard to consistency, but the momentum is shifting towards AI-generated code that is quickly generated and then lengthily maintained when its verbosity & heterogeneity becomes a headache. Depth in: • Leadership, technical & business mission alignment, rigorous goal-setting, personal accountability & team-building • Building and rebuilding dev processes, deployment pipelines and a healthy work environment from the ground up • Changing the engine while the car is running - the tricky balancing act of moving towards best practices in balance with continuing to develop and ship the product • Management and mentoring of developers and first line managers, including coaching emerging leaders • Project leadership, strategic planning & operational planning across multiple teams, timezones and disciplines • Microservice architectures, AWS, web services, REST • Introducing & refining observability practices Previous depth in: • Node, TypeScript, Java • Large data sets, data pipelines and visualisations • Unit testing & test driven development • Authentication & authorisation background • The Atlassian stack, and with writing integrations & workflow optimisations for it