Peter is currently based in Edinburgh, UK where he has been working on electronics design automation (EDA) software since 2006. He spent several years of his free time as the maintainer of the open source GPL Electronic Design Automation (gEDA) schematic editor and carried that experience over when he joined Cadence Design Systems in 2017 to work on the schematic editor component of Virtuoso, there flagship custom integrated circuit design suite. Peter learned to program in C in 2004, picked up C++ in 2013, and started contributing to C++ standardization in 2019. He is currently the assistant chair of SG16, the Unicode and Text Processing study group.
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