After finishing humanities studies (Indology and religious studies) Peter primarily worked as software developer in different occupations. He was member of the Purana Project, where he was in charge of programming indexes and layout for a Indological bibliography. After that he developed conversion programs for Word-Perfect and MS Word. He then became scientific officer in the Tübingen University Computing Center working on LDAP and X.500 within a number of federal funded research projects. After an employment at DANTE in Cambridge, UK, where he was responsible for the X.500 root node he in 2000 co-founded DAASI International as a spin-off of the mentioned research projects, an Open Source company providing services for LDAP, Identity and Access Management, MFA, etc. He is member of the governing board of the DFN, the German National Research Network. Peter is strongly promoting digital sovereignty, for which he sees Open Source, standardized protocols and privacy preservation as prerequisite.