Summary
Daniel Peterson is a Software Development Engineer II with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications and distributed systems, currently at AWS in Seattle. He has a track record of designing event-driven, highly available integrations and services—at HackerRank he engineered enterprise ATS integrations processing 1k+ candidates/day and a payments feature that grew self-serve adoption by 40%. Comfortable across cloud-native AWS tooling, serverless architectures, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Python, and CI/CD, he also scaled real-time pipelines to handle thousands of events per minute. Daniel pairs hands-on engineering with mentoring and cross-functional training, and has a knack for pragmatic automation from his early IT consultancy work. Known for inventive problem solving, he even built a custom PHP AWS Lambda runtime to run a proprietary ML model. Based in Seattle and grounded in practical systems design, he combines full-stack fluency with production-grade operational experience.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Transfer Student, Transfer Student at West Valley College