Peter Degen-Portnoy
Software Engineer at Cloudzero
Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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SeniorPeter Degen-portnoy is a seasoned software engineering leader with 16 years of experience building global, high-performing teams and delivering complex platforms across data-heavy backends, embedded systems, and enterprise architectures. He is currently Senior Manager of Engineering at CloudZero and serves as Board Member & SW Architect at Transit X, shaping scalable, mission-critical systems for carbon-free transit. At Klaviyo, he led the Core Data Group (27 engineers) across 8 domains, driving cost-saving architectural rewrites, FoundationDB migrations, and high-throughput data pipelines that significantly boosted performance. He previously held senior leadership roles at Synopsys and founded Innovatium, illustrating a blend of hands-on engineering, architecture, and entrepreneurial drive. His background spans open source, web applications, avionics, and medical devices, and he holds a Certificate in Software Engineering from Columbia University and an MFA in Lighting Design from Boston University, underscoring multidisciplinary problem-solving. Based in Arlington, MA, he is an effective communicator and cross-functional collaborator, turning ambitious requirements into reliable, scalable solutions.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (52)
svn10
web-application10
probe10
ats10
cloudy10
ragel10
bazaar10
ubuntu10
ruby10
api10
line-counter10
adapter10
counter10
xml10
oauth10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PDegenPortnoy/dot_files
May 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:14 pushes in 5 years 10 months
PDegenPortnoy/pydb
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
Stupidly small and simple database written in python
Contributions:2 PRs, 51 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
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