Chris Peterson
South San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarChris Peterson is a senior product leader at Salesforce with 14 years of experience driving developer-focused platform products, currently leading Heroku product strategy. A former Salesforce developer and architect, he led Apex product efforts—growing language usage over 40% year-over-year—while owning testing and SDK initiatives that improved developer productivity, stability, and scalability. He blends hands-on technical roots (systems administration and architecture) with strategic product management, having moved from code-level debugging and platform integrations to directing cross-functional teams. Based in South San Francisco, he’s known for resourceful execution, attention to detail, and an uncommon track record of translating low-level platform improvements into measurable developer adoption.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (50)
vscode-debugger10
vscode-extension10
salesforce-developers10
apex10
salesforce10
cli10
plsql9
chrome-extension9
salesforcedx9
php9
zsh9
shell9
docker8
swift8
macos8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
capeterson/REST-Explain-Client
Apr 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 9 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 11 months
capeterson/Apex-Util
May 2013 - Jul 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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