Peter Dye

Brock Solutions is an engineering solutions and professional services company specializing in the design, build and implementation of real-time solutions for broad based industrial/manufacturing and transportation/logistics organizations globally.

• Reduced AutoCAD drafting time by developing sophisticated automation tools in C# to generate 60% of required drawings.
• Increased software insights by starting initiative to add logging to new and existing automation tools using Serilog.
• Ensured software quality with unit tests in NUnit and utilized dependency injection with Unity for a testable architecture.
• Improved execution time of drawing cross-referencing software by 90% through profiler guided optimizations.
• Refactored existing code base organization to match C# and .NET best practices.
• Developed N-ary tree node reduction algorithm given leaf nodes with unordered known ancestors.

Tidal Medical is a dynamic new startup in the medical imaging technology field.

• Architected multithreaded Python application to reconstruct, record, and view medical images at 13 frames/second.
  • Used Qt through PyQt5, and pyqtgraph, as well as Cython for real time images.
• Successfully lead 3-person software team in developing the first prototype of a medical imaging system.
• Modelled advanced image reconstruction algorithms in MATLAB/Octave.
• Developed fast embedded system communications between Python application and a FPGA using the SPI protocol.

Brock Solutions is an engineering solutions and professional services company specializing in the design, build and implementation of real-time solutions for broad based industrial/manufacturing and transportation/logistics organizations globally.

• Significantly decreased PLC tag generation time by developing Python script to automate the process.
• Learned about the whole software development cycle for PLCs.
• Performed QA and controls systems validation with PICS and AutoMod simulation programs.
• Gained lots of experience programming with Ladder Logic to solve a variety of controls problems.
• Implemented controls solutions using inter-PLC communication and redundant PLC systems.

Smith + Andersen is a trusted Canadian mechanical and electrical consultanting engineering firm, reaching new levels of engineering and design excellence in the communications, security, and audiovisual fields.

• Improved communication techniques to manage competing deadlines through upwards management.
• Deepened experience in electrical system design techniques, as well as in the consulting industry as a whole.
• Performed site visits to map existing conditions and investigate design solutions.
• Expanded and improved on skills gained from working at Stantec.

Designers, engineers, scientists, and project managers, innovating together at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships. Designing with community in mind.

• Developed feeder size calculator in Excel to increase efficiency of feeder sizing by 80%.
• Experience working on new construction and tenant fit-out for office, retail, warehouse, hospitals and airports.
• Designed building systems such as power, lighting, fire alarm and security in accordance with the OESC, OBC, and NFC.
• Well versed in modelling building electrical systems using Revit and AutoCAD.
• Coordinated with architects, interior designers, mechanical, and structural teams for seamless design.

Canada's Air Navigation Service Provider, keeping airplanes safe from coast to coast.

• Developed a local network data logger for weather sensors by using PHP and MySQL running on a Raspberry Pi server.
• Developed a JavaScript algorithm to graph data gathered from a precipitation sensor over a specified period.
• Created and modified technical schematics in AutoCAD while adhering to company standards.
• Designed a power supply to be integrated into an existing system.
• Authored technical documentation for installation and upkeep of airport weather systems.

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” - Dr. Seuss

Personally I learn best from books, so I wanted to kickstart my software development career by reading some books that contain years of experience from some very smart minds.

Code Complete: This book is all about code construction. It deals with low level implementation details relevant to the everyday writing of code such as variable naming, functions and parameters, classes, and above all, readability. My main takeaway was that readability is the most important and one of the hardest things to achieve in a complex software system.

The Clean Coder: This book is all about being a professional as a software developer. The book talks about the best way to handle various office situations, working in teams, mentoring and being mentored, and working efficiently as a software developer. My main takeaway was that professional programmers need to constantly be practicing their craft, in addition to what they do at work.

The Pragmatic Programmer: This book focuses on building robust software. It covers programming techniques for software that is easy to maintain, such as decoupling and reducing duplication. It discusses interesting paradigms to avoid errors (such as design by contract) and possible actions to take if errors are present at runtime. My main takeaway is that software should be made as configurable as possible so that future changes have minimal impact on only one area of the code base.