Chris Petersen
(some Kind Of) Software Engineer at American Express
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChris Petersen is a seasoned software and systems architect with 22 years of experience designing scalable web and mobile applications, distributed systems, and APIs for startups and enterprises. Based in Seattle, he blends deep hands-on skills in Linux, Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, and RDBMS (MySQL/Postgres) with pragmatic architecture work—pivoting teams from rigid microservices to agile GraphQL/Python stacks and simplifying operational complexity. He’s led engineering teams, driven API and infrastructure design at companies from Nordstrom and RealNetworks to Center (now part of American Express), and co-founded a nonprofit that continues to provide TV listings to open-source users. A practical polyglot and mentor, he’s comfortable across CI/CD, cloud deployments, ArangoDB/Elasticsearch, and performance-focused tooling, and he often surfaces overlooked operational needs into product direction. His background in philosophy and anthropology gives him a systems-thinking perspective that favors human-centered, maintainable designs.
23 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
MA Social Sciences (Anthropology), MA Social Sciences (Anthropology) at University of ChicagoBA Philosophy, BA Philosophy at Whitman College
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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6answers
5questions
linux
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php
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Github Skills (200)
firmware10
home-automation10
python10
esp3210
home-assistant10
mqtt10
raml10
3d-printer10
vtt10
3d-printing10
activation10
gcode10
iot10
static-site10
jekyll10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
xBrite/sample-python-package
Apr 2018 - Sep 2020
Example python package layout with cython support, including instructions.
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
cythonpython
dotscad/python-dotscad
Jul 2014 - Dec 2018
Python library for interacting with OpenSCAD files
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 years 5 months
openscadpython
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