Erik Peterson
Full Stack Engineer at Knixwear
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Peterson is a Full Stack Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building reliable, user-focused web applications, currently driving product development at Knixwear. His background in music and teaching informs a patient, communicative approach to collaboration and mentorship, allowing him to translate complex technical ideas for non-technical stakeholders. Trained at Lighthouse Labs and experienced across React, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and WebSockets, he favors functional programming techniques to keep code predictable and maintainable. Erik excels at crafting smooth, frustration-free user experiences and thrives in cross-functional teams that value clarity and craftsmanship. He brings a rare blend of creative discipline from music education and practical engineering rigor, often preferring elegant, minimal solutions over unnecessary complexity.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Education - BEd, J/I - (Music Specialty), Bachelor of Education - BEd, J/I - (Music Specialty) at Nipissing UniversityBachelor of Music(Performance) - BMus, Bachelor of Music(Performance) - BMus at Humber CollegeFull-Stack Web-Development, Full-Stack Web-Development at Lighthouse Labs
English
Github Skills (8)
react4
firebase4
react-native3
expressjs3
nodejs2
balloon2
javascript2
speech2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NosretepKire/javascript-arrays-bootcamp-prep-000
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:226 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
NosretepKire/javascript-intro-to-looping-bootcamp-prep-000
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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