Hi! I'm Peter.
Born and raised in Ireland, I returned home in December 2023 after spending ten years living in the United States. I graduated from Atlantic Technological University, Galway (formerly Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology) in 2012 with a bachelor of science degree in software development.
By day, I provide technical support for software applications. You can review my resume for more information about my professional background. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, listening to a wide variety of music, playing video games, and just generally exploring new things that take my interest.
My wife, Dominique, and I share a love of travelling, and we are always formulating plans for a trip somewhere new. The big-ticket items on our bucket list include touring Japan, Europe, and South America. We've both lived in several cities in the United States, and in 2016–2017, we spent ten months travelling across New Zealand.
You can review my planned improvements to the site in this Google Sheet.
When beginning to learn a new programming language, it's often suggested to pick a personal project as both a learning aid and a goal to aspire to. Therefore, this site is mainly a result of my desire to learn HTML and CSS (and maybe some JavaScript if I get adventurous enough!) and have something tangible to show for it. The site went live on September 3rd, 2022 and is hosted by Amazon Web Services. The content is served via a public S3 bucket, Route53 provides domain registration and DNS services, and Cloudfront provides content delivery network services.
The design for the home page was intended to play on my background in technology, with the overall main graphic/title intended to resemble a computer circuit board. The green color used throughout the site is a best-effort match for the color of a typical circuit board, and to paraphrase the Dude, "it really ties the site together". "Hello, World!" is usually the first thing you learn to output in code when learning a computer programming language, and, personally, I think it fits just right as a nerdy welcome to the website. I was able to achieve the circuitry effect with a custom font called "Circuit Electrique" which Cloutierfontes provides. FontAwesome provides the icons used extensively on the resume page and other places. In case it needs to be said, I hold no claim to any trademarks used throughout this site, unless otherwise stated.
I have designed, developed and tested this website on my laptop so it will probably look and work best in a desktop web browser. However, I consider it a work-in-progress and will likely make improvements as I learn more about HTML and CSS. I also want to make the site look better on mobile devices so responsive web design, here we come!