I’m really delighted and honoured to have been included in this list — Computing.co.uk’s Rising Stars 2025!

Over the past year, he has revolutionised the charity’s observability, teaching himself Zabbix, an open source monitoring tool. His custom scripts now proactively detect and resolve issues before they can have an impact, significantly reducing both downtime and the risk to [the organisation]. Peter extended monitoring for domains and certificates across the infrastructure to prevent outages caused by expired certificates, all while managing a full workload that included optimising cloud costs, saving… £150,000 annually.

Beyond technical achievements, he has transformed team culture, fostering better communication and aligning technology solutions with the organisation’s mission.

The recognition is really nice to have. What I am most grateful for is that, in a very uncertain and challenging world, I’m in the really fortunate position to be able to spend most of my time contributing to an organisation that shares my values. Technology’s job should be to make people’s lives better. It should empower all of us. It should be a tool to help us maintain the delicate balances of power that keep a society healthy and just. It’s very clear that there’s a lot of work to do on that in 2025.