Peter Milne

Biography

Enterprise Architect at Adform, based in Copenhagen, where actively is involved architecting and migrating technologies and work practices to a scalable enterprise platform. Before Adform, he was the Director of Application Engineering at Aerospike Inc, a NoSQL Database Start in Silicon Valley. There I conducted business and evangelized Aerospike in 21 countries. Prior to Aerospike, I was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at ITerative Consulting, a consulting company providing software modernization to clients in 11 countries. Prior to ITerative, Peter ran the consulting and education divisions of Forte Software (Australia), a provider of enterprise software development, deployment and management tools. Prior to Forte Software, I was a principal consultant with Digital Equipment Corporation, specializing in distributed computing. My career began with Wang Labs (Australia) as a hardware engineer in the Asia Pacific region. I eventually became a software engineer at Wang R&D in Lowell, Mass where he helped to develop one of the first commercial email systems.

I am an accomplished public speaker and has spoken at CodeEurope, WarsawJS, BuildStuff Vilnius and Mallorca, QCon San Francisco, QCon New York, QCon Sao Paulo, QCon London, High Load Strategy Vilnius, Agile Tour Kaunas, Craft Budapest, GlueCon Denver and meetups on Big Data in San Francisco, Copenhagen, Los Angles, Hamburg, Berlin, Paris and London.

I have a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Computing from the University of Technology, Sydney, and has a number of postgraduate academic and commercial qualifications, including an international commercial pilots license for helicopters (ICAO CPL) and he has flown commercially and for recreation in 12 countries. Peter is a part time mad scientist, robotipart-timeiast, hardware hacker and 3D printinga geek.