Chris Peterson
Senior Director Of Product Management, Heroku at Salesforce
South San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris 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
17 years of employment as a software developer
Hillsdale Highschool
Stackoverflow
224reputation
13kreached
8answers
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Github Skills (72)
plsql10
summaries10
salesforcedx10
shell10
salesforce10
cli10
salesforce-developers10
apex10
ups9
api9
vscode-debugger9
bash9
resharper9
refactoring9
cli-app9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
capeterson/Grey-Tab
Oct 2012 - Oct 2015
Contributions:1 release, 77 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 1 month
developingchromeforcesupportingchrome-extension
capeterson/REST-Explain-Client
Apr 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 9 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 11 months
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