Peter W. Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Hayward, CA, US

• I provide long-term, short-term, full-time, and fractional Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, and Leadership (managing & mentoring) services to clients ranging from pre-launch startups to Fortune 500 corporations via.
• Kubernetes cluster and microservice administration in GCP.
• Lift and shift migration within GCP, using Terraform/Terragrunt for IaC and Google Secrets Manager for secrets and configuration management.
• Kubernetes cluster and microservice administration in AWS (see my profile's About section for details).
• All facets of API architecture and management at scale; including logging, monitoring & reporting, debugging, rate-limiting, IP whitelisting, OAuth, SAML, mutual TLS, and providing architectural guidance for scaling.
• Lift and shift migration to AWS, using CloudFormation for IaC.

• I was solely responsible for the management and operation of all prod and non-prod Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure acquired from FortressIQ; as well as Process Discovery (FortressIQ) release deployments.
• Worked closely with the finance team to accurately monitor and forecast our GOGS for annual budgeting purposes and determining the feasibility of potentially new services.
• Established the FortressIQ Change Approval Board and represented the FortressIQ platform during our ISO 27001 and SOC2 certification audits. I worked closely with our Security, Compliance, Engineering, and Data Science.
• Created Disaster Recovery (DR) plan for FortressIQ and documented env-specific nuances (e.g., data residency limitations).
• Created Terragrunt/Terraform IaC (blueprints & modules), and led the effort to lift and shift bespoke FortressIQ infrastructure to dedicated new GCP projects, to meet company’s conventions, security, and compliance.
• Assisted the Product and Sales teams, on numerous occasions, with platform and infra-related RFP and technical due diligence responses.

• I enjoyed some time off with my family and worked on neglected personal projects while contemplating my next great adventure. The benefits package was unbeatable while it lasted:
• Flexible Hours
• Unlimited Vacation Days
• Lots of Reading Time
• Volunteer Days
• Gym Membership

Baltimore, MD, US

• Led development, technical operations, and IT for the CrowdSource (now OneSpace) west coast office.
• Worked closely with the executive, engineering, and marketing teams at HQ to:- Rebrand all Servio corporate assets.- Migrate all projects, workers, and integrated clients on Servio's CloudCrowd platform to the.
• Implemented a CloudCrowd to CrowdSource API bridge so we could sunset the CloudCrowd platform before the final remaining CloudCrowd API consumer was ready to directly migrate their API client to the CrowdSource API.

• Assumed responsibility for engineering, technical operations, and IT; represented these functions and systems through all technology-related aspects of CrowdSource's acquisition of Servio. This included technical due.
• Staffed and trained a small offshore SRE team to mitigate risk from rapid pre-acquisition attrition, ensuring continued quality of service of the Servio/CloudCrowd platform.
• Assumed the primary on-call/SRE role so the remaining engineering staff could focus on tight revenue-related deadlines.

• Designed and implemented regional data-center cutover capability for our cloud document store, along with a daemon for replicating OpenStack object-store containers across regions.
• Added "boiler-plate" detection and enhanced filtering capabilities to our plagiarism detection service while improving the overall quality and maintainability of the legacy codebase.
• Created the initial proof-of-concept for the cloudcrowd.com Rails 3.0 to 3.2 migration and UI overhaul based on Twitter Bootstrap's "responsive design" layout.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Built the “Tools & Frameworks” team from scratch and scaled my combined organization size by 3x.
• Led the design, implementation, operation, and adoption of a massively parallel and distributed cross-platform and cross-browser test automation platform, enabling Box’s transition to a Continuous Delivery release cycle.
• Responsible for all QA activities (local, offshore, and crowdsourced) across all product lines, including budgeting, establishing the vision and priorities, and quarterly roadmaps for my organization.
• Introduced new tools, technologies, and process initiatives, resulting in improved product quality and increased individual and organizational productivity.

Dublin, CA, US

• Responsible for the management of all development activities for the “ITN Spend Management” operator and business intelligence solutions.
• Actively managed a ten person development and testing team; conducted performance reviews, hiring, and mentoring of direct reports.
• Successfully delivered Unit Purchasing Compliance 1.0 – 1.2, a critical product that has been well received by one of ITN’s most demanding customers.
• Introduced new tools, technologies, processes, and initiatives, resulting in increased individual and organizational productivity via enhanced collaboration and knowledge transfer.

• Defined company-wide development process by selecting, installing and configuring development frameworks, integrated revision control, build automation, unit testing, continuous integration, and source formatting.
• Worked on numerous projects ranging from one-week solo R&D / proof-of-concept projects to multi-year projects with distributed development teams. I mentored staff and performed informal code reviews, for 5 – 30+.
• Recruited and managed two separate R&D teams, one local and one offshore, and assisted other development teams with their recruiting and interviewing to ensure that organization-wide staffing levels were sufficiently.

• Researched and prototyped with top up-and-coming web and ORM frameworks, settling on WebWork 2 beta & Hibernate 2 beta. I leveraged my experience with these frameworks and introduced them in my following role at Third.
• Created data model and all related CRUD screens for minimal viable product (MVP).

Oakland, CA, US

• Single-handedly designed and successfully delivered “GT Nexus Analytics 1.0” under tight schedule constraints.
• Designed and implemented the architecture for carrier billing and reporting across all product suites.
• Designed and implemented dynamic milestone model matching algorithms in Transact-SQL for determining the best milestone model, and variation in the chosen model, for shipments within the “GT Nexus Orders 1.0” product.

• Staffed and mentored an engineering organization, consisting of 4 developers, 1 DBA and 1 quality assurance engineer.
• Led design and development of all company projects consistently staying within schedule and budget constraints.

• Successfully pivoted to providing outsourced SaaS development services, resulting in acqui-hire by companyfinance.com.
• Designed, implemented, marketed, and sold Remedy AR System administration and data synchronization add-on tools.
• Provided on-site Remedy consulting and training to enterprise customers, including Remedy (now BMC), Clorox, The San Francisco Newspaper Agency (now The San Francisco Chronicle), and Pacific Bell Wireless (now AT&T).

Houston, Texas, US

Houston, Texas, US

Milpitas, CA, US