Hayes Peters

Overview

Staff Embedded Engineer at Copper Grid, focused on embedded systems. Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 36% in two quarters. Before that: Manulife and Deloitte. Most at home with C and hardware bring-up. I read too many books about cities.

Experience

1. Staff Embedded Engineer

   Dec 2025 - Present
   Copper Grid · 10 mo · Contract · Toronto, ON
   • Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 22 a week to 4.
   • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 33% in two quarters.
2. Embedded Engineer

   Apr 2022 - Dec 2025
   Manulife · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
   • Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 12 a week to 3.
   • Shipped 20 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.
3. Embedded Engineer

   Nov 2018 - Apr 2022
   Deloitte · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
   • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 37% in two quarters.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 33 minutes to under 4.
4. Senior Embedded Engineer

   Mar 2016 - Nov 2018
   Thomson Reuters · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
   • Moved 65% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
5. Embedded Engineer

   Dec 2013 - Mar 2016
   Electronic Arts · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
   • Moved 76% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

Projects

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Education

1. Concordia University

   BEng, Electronics and Communication
   2008 - 2012