Peter Mierau Email & Phone Number

Alamo, CA, US

Santa Cruz, CA, US

• One of three principals involved in day-to-day decision making for company
• Designed, created, and expanded robust server architectures using Amazon Web Services
• Designed and wrote REST APIs for InDesign-based core technology - https://santacruzsoftware.com/printui.php
• Designed and created BrandingUI marketing automation portals - https://santacruzsoftware.com/brandingui.php
• Designed and created licensing server for LinkrUI product - https://santacruzsoftware.com/linkrui
• Created administrative back-end web portal and many REST APIs

Scotts Valley, CA, US

• Worked with several US and international clients on a number of mobile and web projects.
• Architected highly scalable web services.
• Guided offshore development teams working on desktop software, mobile applications, and web services.
• Developed high-performance image scaling and caching web service in PHP.See www.nimblewareapps.com and www.nimblewareconsulting.com for more information.

• Software consulting of all types, from architecture to management to implementation.
• Specialist in using servers to amplify the capabilities of mobile devices.
• Effective leader of virtual teams located around the world.See www.pmierau.com for more information.

San Jose, CA, US

• Built and managed teams to create award-winning new software products consisting of as many as 37 managers, software developers, and testers.
• Met integration milestones for huge software projects under exacting conditions (i.e. missing the milestone would have meant killing the project).
• Independently of IT, created three Web 2.0 data centers for Adobe to support 39 SaaS teams with 6 million users. Managed thousands of servers along with multi-gigabit firewalls, load balancers, switches, and other.
• Invented a private cloud computing environment that leveraged high-performance firewalls and load balancers in the data centers.
• Key contributor in defining new products--lots of feature brainstorming as well as profiling of potential customers.
• Launched and guided several R&D projects with the goal of prototyping potential products, some of which were highlighted at company meetings to illustrate Adobe’s strategic direction.

• Managed and directed all software development for products such as PrintGear, PrintCache, and Fonts on the Fly for WordPerfect.
• Worked closely with OEM customers such as HP, DEC, Okidata, Canon, and Adobe to define and deliver custom software products.

• Participated in four startups as principal or founder, all acquired by larger companies.
• VP and CTO of a mid-sized software company.
• Various other software and firmware development projects as an individual contributor.