Summary
Eric Petersen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 13 years of experience building reliable developer tools, web applications, and infrastructure, currently at Google after a multi-year tenure in Site Reliability Engineering. He brings deep Python/Django expertise from leading upgrades, CI adoption, and maintenance across dozens of enterprise applications at UT Austin, paired with hands-on SRE practice scaling Google services. Comfortable across stacks, Eric has led migrations, payment processing systems, API design, and developer training—mentoring early-career engineers and writing curriculum to raise team craft. A fearless debugger and extremely fast learner, he combines academic rigor from a physics/astronomy background with practical systems instincts, often tackling legacy-to-modern transitions that others avoid.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Master of Science (M.S.), Astronomy, Master of Science (M.S.), Astronomy at University of Florida
German, French