Peter has been a .NET developer since the start of .NET with experience of every major release all the way through to modern .NET and beyond. Peter lives in Gateshead, in the North East of England, and has over three decades of personal experience and over two decades of professional experience as a developer for mobile with experience of Windows Phone where he published one of the first thousand apps gaining over 330,000 downloads, web where he has experience of legacy ASP.NET both Web Forms and MVC to modern ASP.NET Core and Blazor. Peter also has experience of legacy and current desktop technologies from WinForms, Windows Presentation Foundation and Universal Windows Platform to Windows App SDK and .NET MAUI. Peter has a passion for all things Microsoft, even publishing his own free digital coffee table book about Microsoft’s Zune music players that weren’t even officially released in the United Kingdom at zunepedia.com

Peter is a Microsoft MVP for .NET and Windows Development recognising his passion for helping others including mentoring at work, helping people progress or even get started in their career as a software developer. Peter has written dozens of tutorials along with many talks and workshops that he shares freely on his website tutorialr.com along with presenting about various .NET and Windows Development topics as well as maintaining his own open-source packages for developers. Peter has engaged with the community including Microsoft itself such as finding and reporting a bug in Windows or participating in a chat with developers at Microsoft to workshop a potential new feature coming to Windows. Peter helps share what is going on in the North East including the events he attends including many he has presented at and those around the country along with articles about .NET or Windows Development topics plus his own technology podcast at rogueplanetoid.com