Peter Hilton
Freelance product manager, software developer, writer, public speaker, and amateur musician. Peter consults for Signavio, and is available for product roles (Rotterdam/remote), and also consulting, training and speaking.
Freelance product manager, software developer, writer, public speaker, and amateur musician. Peter consults for Signavio, and is available for product roles (Rotterdam/remote), and also consulting, training and speaking.
For Signavio, Peter works on a workflow automation product. Peter’s product development interests include business process management, web application frameworks, software crafting, functional design, and agile software development.
Peter enjoys writing effective technical documentation, for software products and projects, apps and APIs, and understands how to avoid both too much and too little documentation. Peter co-authored Play for Scala (Manning Publications, 2013), and contributed to 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know (O’Reilly Media, May 2020). From 2005 to 2014, Peter wrote extensively on the Lunatech Blog (now offline).
Peter’s blog: product management, software development, cafes, and other curiosities
Peter regularly speaks at companies, developer events and conferences on a variety of software development topics, including naming things, documentation, maintainable code and other aspects of programming.
Software development training courses for public events or in-house.
Peter is an experienced amateur early music singer - baritone/bass - focused on renaissance polyphony. Peter sings with chamber choir Cappella Gabrieli in the Netherlands. He sang with Rotterdam quartet Het Retorisch Kwartet until 2018, and with the Renaissance Singers in London in 2014.