Peter Fries
Co-Founder at UpJump Media
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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SeniorPeter Fries is a seasoned software founder and technical leader with 12 years of delivering high-quality web and mobile applications. As Co-Founder of UpJump Media and a long-time Search & Data Consultant at Significant Terms, he blends hands-on engineering with data-driven strategy, focusing on search, recommendations, and data engineering. His career includes leadership roles at CapTech Consulting and Checkbox Survey Solutions, and co-founding CellExchange, illustrating a track record of building scalable systems across startups and consulting environments. A polyglot programmer and entrepreneur, he turns complex requirements into practical, auditable solutions while actively cultivating a Richmond, Virginia tech community. Based in Richmond, he continues to ship reliable software and mentor teams, bridging technical depth with business impact.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
Stackoverflow
1,728reputation
117kreached
27answers
4questions
Github Skills (40)
query-parser10
rewrite-rules10
java9
solr9
lucene9
preprocessor9
synonyms9
rdd8
fulltext-search8
search-engines8
solrj8
search-engine8
neovim7
elasticsearch-client7
neovim-plugin7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pfries/git-memo
Jun 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
pfries/dotfiles
Sep 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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