Ben Peterson
Software Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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SeniorBen Peterson is a Senior Software Engineer II with 12+ years building and architecting scalable distributed systems across startups and established teams, currently driving localization and translation platform work at Articulate. A pragmatic tech generalist, he has designed serverless and containerized services, decisioning engines, and CI/CD pipelines using AWS, Kubernetes, Node.js, Python, and Postgres while emphasizing cost-efficiency and observability. He pairs hands-on delivery with team leadership—mentoring engineers, running knowledge-sharing forums, and co-owning documentation and RFCs—to consistently get features into production. Notable past work includes designing Numerated’s secure file service for millions of documents and early-stage platform foundations at CloudZero as employee #5. A diehard New Englander and veteran programmer, Ben brings a multiplier mindset that balances big-picture architecture with practical release-focused execution.
12 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (112)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Cloudzero/cloudzero-reactor-aws
Oct 2017 - Jun 2018
CloudZero Reactor for AWS
Contributions:54 PRs, 186 pushes, 63 branches in 8 months
cloudzeroreactoraws
killthrush/random-detritus
Feb 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:13 commits in 4 months
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