Cody Peterson
Web Designer at Action Backed
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarCody Peterson is a Portland-based web designer and developer with 12 years crafting websites, tools, and apps for startups, non-profits, arts organizations, and progressive causes. As founder and development lead across ventures like Human Shapes and Action Backed, he blends hands-on design with back-end development to deliver polished, user-focused digital products. He contributes to open-source projects such as Changelog.com, where he implemented episode management features using Elixir and Phoenix and helped shape UI templates. Cody’s background spans agency collaboration, art-driven experiences, and product-focused engineering—comfortable toggling between strategy, visual design, and implementation. Known for shipping end-to-end solutions, he brings a pragmatic, creative approach and long-standing commitment to mission-driven work.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
13reputation
105reached
2answers
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Github Skills (11)
phoenix-framework10
elixir10
web-development9
testing8
postgresql7
implement7
css6
php6
webkit6
instagram6
cms4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thechangelog/changelog.com
Aug 2016 - May 2020
Changelog makes world-class developer pods. This is our open source platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & UI/UX Implementer
Back-end Developer & UI/UX ImplementerContributions:443 commits, 26 PRs, 284 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Cody primarily worked on the admin episode controller, implementing features related to creating and updating podcast episodes. The code changes involve the addition of functionality to create new episodes by building associations, creating, and redirecting, and editing and updating existing episodes. These changes involved working with Elixir and the Phoenix framework and required changes to the tests. Additionally, the user appears to have been involved in UI implementation, editing the layout and templates.
cmspodcastingchangelogpodcastelixir
HumanShapes/commerce-taxjar
Jul 2021 - Jan 2025
TaxJar integration for Craft Commerce.
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
craft-commercecommercecraft-plugincrafttaxjar
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