Peter Alston Email & Phone Number

Oakley, Ca, Us

Culver City, Ca, Us

• Directed a cross-collaborative financial project which saw me lead a three member team and delivered on a sprawling multimillion dollar initiative to break into an emerging market. This initiative generated $200k in revenue in its first month.• Spearheaded the development of Crunchyroll’s next generation payment processor where we leveraged event sourcing + CQRS to create scalable APIs capable of handling thousands of transactions per minute.• Pioneered a set of standards for our error logging which improved transparency into our systems which allowed us to build out dashboards and introduce real time alerting and monitoring to areas of the codebase that were not covered.• Key member on an advisory committee to leadership on matters of platform security with a focus on account takeovers.

• Instrumental in the creation of a scalable web service that handles millions of requests each year. Platform saved ~35% in development time on future initiatives and is currently generating $3M+ dollars in annual revenue.• Helped significantly shrink application install footprint by reducing upgrade by 800% (from 4 hours to just 30 minutes). Resulted in significant savings for both clients and the implementation team.• Participate in code reviews, documentation writing, automated test cases, and unit tests.

Rock Hill, New York, Us

• Created automated distribution system for software updates, allowing for easier and faster deployment of software across the organization. Resulted in minimized down time and a simple one-click deployment system.• Developed extensive libraries for their next generation agency management system. Efforts resulted in a small reusable code base which sped up the development cycle by ~25%.• Ported legacy Visual Basic 6 applications to VB.Net, allowing company to reuse existing apps.