Peter is the Chief of Staff (Engineering) at Magnite.He is also the co-founder of Geeks Who Lead - the definitive, free, global learning community for senior engineering leaders.Every quarter, he hosts the CTO Hour for O'Reilly and twice a year he helps facilitate the executive summits at KubeCon for CNCF.He is an experienced executive, entrepreneur, technologist, developer advocate, product marketer (for B2D companies) and engineering leader. From 2014 - 2023 he was the founder of CTO Connection - a conference series and community for senior engineering leaders to connect with and learn from their peers. He wrote "Introducing GitHub" for O'Reilly, created the "Mastering GitHub" course for code school (now Pluralsight) and "Git and GitHub LiveLessons" for Pearson. He also taught Digital Literacy and Data Science at Columbia Business School as an adjunct for the MBA/EMBA program. He is a co-founder and co-organizer of the New York CTO School http://www.ctoschool.org - an organization in NYC devoted to creating the next generation of technical leaders and helps to organize CTO schools around the world. He also cofounded the Denver CTO Club - http://denverctoclub.org/ and is a member of the NY CTO Club.He has presented at a range of conferences including KubeCon, DLD conference, ooPSLA, QCon (NY, SF and Shanghai), RubyNation, SpringOne2GX, Code Generation, Practical Product Lines, the British Computer Society Software Practices Advancement conference, GraphConnect, DevNexus, cf.Objective(), CF United, Scotch on the Rocks, WebDU, WebManiacs, UberConf, the Rich Web Experience and the No Fluff Just Stuff Enterprise Java tour. He has been on the program committee for QCon in New York, Code Generation in Cambridge, England and the Domain Specific Modeling workshop at SPLASH (was ooPSLA) and reviewed and shepherded proposals for the BCS SPA conference. He has been published in IEEE Software, Dr. Dobbs, IBM developerWorks, Information Week, Methods & Tools, Mashed Code, the Open Source Journal, NFJS the Magazine and GroovyMag. He tweets occasionally as @peterbell, and lives and works just north of New York City.