About the Authors
Peter Salomonsen is currently working as an Enterprise Architect at Banqsoft, where his mission is to lift banking and credit software suites into cloud-native architectures and environments. Peter has been an active computer programmer since the Commodore 64 and was active in creating computer music in the Commodore Amiga demoscene. His interest in combining coding and music led to the creation of the open-source music software Frinika, written in Java for portability across platforms. When WebAssembly became a reality, he saw the opportunity to bring music production to the Web browser, and then he created the WebAssembly Music project. Since the 1990s, Peter has also worked as a software architect and developer of web applications for GPS vehicle tracking, digital maps, government services, and finance. He has also been leading the hosting part of these applications, from the era of self-hosted on-premise servers to cloud-native operations on Kubernetes. Improving the scalability, resilience, and energy efficiency of information systems has always been one of Peter’s ambitions, and WebAssembly plays an important part in that evolution. Peter has been shipping WebAssembly applications since asm. js was introduced in 2013. Porting TA-lib to asm.js for a widely used financial markets technical analysis tool was one of his first achievements with the technology. Among the next WebAssembly projects he created are Wasm-Git and WebAssembly Music. To achieve the goals for these projects, Peter also made contributions to the Emscripten and AssemblyScript codebases.
Since 2020, Peter has also been an active contributor to the NEAR protocol blockchain ecosystem. Also started here with the WebAssembly Music project, but later, he also introduced JsInRust to make it possible to add a JavaScript layer inside the WebAssembly smart contracts. The WebAssembly Music project is the main driver for all of the other supporting WebAssembly projects Peter is working on. The project encompasses all layers in a Cloud Native technology stack and also blockchain. WebAssembly can be found in every layer. Peter is a true WebAssembly enthusiast and ambassador.