Hire Peter Wallhead

A short list of my current skills and experience.

🧰 Hardware Development

• Schematic design with KiCad EDA
• Datasheet interpretation
• Component selection and sourcing
• PCB design and routing with KiCad EDA
• SMD reflow soldering
• Weatherproof enclosure design
• 3D modelling with OpenSCAD
• 3D printing

💻 Software Development

• Arduino for ESP32s
• ESP32 flash encryption
• Python scripting on Raspberry Pi's
• Automated testing with pytest
• Data storage with SQLite and Postgres
• Package and virtual environment management with pipenv
• Flask (side projects)
• Django (side projects)
• JavaScript
• API design (side projects)

☁️ Cloud (side projects)

• Heroku deployments
• Digital Ocean VPS deployments
• Secure file storage on AWS S3 with Boto3
• Exposure to Heroku workers

🤖 Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

• Experience with OpenCV in Python for facial detection and recognition applications
• Exposure to TF-IDF for document summarisation (side projects)
• Exposure to Azure Cognitive Service for Language (side projects)
• Exposure to graph theory (side projects)

🛠 Integrations

• MIFARE and EM card readers
• Barcode readers
• WAVEID keyboard wedge card reader
• Inner Range Inception Controller
• Inner Range Concept 4000 Controller
• Integriti Security Controller
• Hikvision People Counting Camera
• Cohera-Tech People Counter
• Speed Gates

👋 Softer Skills

• Non-technical stakeholder engagement
• Supplier engagement
• Technical documentation and manual creation

💡 Other

• Professional and hobby experience with various communication protocols including Wiegand and RS485
• Experience with building tools to enable human-robot interaction. For example a browser-based robot arm programmer and a robot arm that follows objects using ultrasonic sensors (side projects)
• Experience with building various wheeled mobile robots with onboard obstacle avoidance systems (side projects)
• Experience with drone flight controller software development (side projects)

🚀 Interests and Hobbies

• Aerospace, especially RC planes and drones
• Robotics, especially walking robots
• 3D printing. I love coming up with an idea and being able to hold it in my hands within hours
• Everything motorised, especially homemade electric crazy carts

🧠 3 words that best describe me

Passionate, Determined and Caffeinated.