Christopher Peters
Founder And Lead Engineer at Duct Tape Digital (ducttapedigital.com)
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Peters is a founder and hands-on lead engineer with 11 years of SRE/DevOps experience who now runs Duct Tape Digital, helping contractors and startups scale through automation, resilient infrastructure, and local SEO. He combines production-grade incident response and stress-testing expertise from roles at Expensify with practical sales and product skills to deliver conversion-focused sites and automated CRM workflows. Christopher has deep experience hardening distributed systems—contributing back-end fixes to the active/active Bedrock database—and building minimal-intervention ops tooling that keeps systems reliable under growth. He routinely translates enterprise-level infrastructure patterns into affordable fractional DevOps engagements and custom automations that eliminate repetitive work. Based in Portland, he pairs technical rigor with a marketer’s eye for niche positioning, maintaining 100% client retention by focusing on measurable lead-to-customer outcomes. His unusual background—a BA in Music turned into a career of building robust, scalable systems—gives him a pragmatic, creative approach to solving operational chaos.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Music, Bachelor of Arts - BA Music at San Francisco State University
Github Skills (9)
distributed-systems10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
back-end-development10
database-design10
multithreading10
concurrency10
system-design9
sqlite9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Expensify/Bedrock
Oct 2016 - Aug 2022
Rock solid distributed database specializing in active/active automatic failover and WAN replication
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 releases, 56 reviews, 170 commits in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to back-end logic and server-side operations. Their commits involve code modifications related to server-side functionality, including database interactions, managing command queues, and handling transactions. Several commits address fixing bugs and addressing sync-related issues within the distributed database system. The user also worked on implementing and refining features and logging statements for a more performant and stable system.
rockdistributed-databasedatabasefailoverreplication
righdforsa/lebp-stack
Jul 2020 - Dec 2023
Linux Nginx Bedrock PHP app server environment
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 37 PRs in 3 years 5 months
nginxphp-appbedrockserver-appphp
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