Erik Peterson
Founder, Director, And CTO CISO at FinOps Foundation
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolErik Peterson is a veteran founder and engineering leader who has spent more than two decades building cloud-native software and pioneering engineering-led cost optimization as Founder, CTO, and CISO of CloudZero. Based in Boston, he blends hands-on technical depth—Serverless advocacy, AWS Ambassadorship, and a security-first background—with product and go-to-market experience from startups through enterprise acquisitions. Erik chairs efforts in the FinOps and Serverless communities, sits on the FinOps Foundation governing board, and helped found the Boston Serverless Group, signaling influence beyond his company. Known for pragmatic engineering principles (“Less is More” and relentless iteration), he pairs a contrarian appreciation for margins with a history of shipping and scaling developer-focused products across security and cloud domains. An unusual thread in his career is early international systems work supporting diplomatic and UN missions, reflecting long-standing operational rigor under real-world constraints.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Political Science and Computer Science, Political Science and Computer Science at Emory & Henry CollegeComputer Science & Political Science, Computer Science & Political Science at Virginia Tech
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Github Skills (101)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Cloudzero/cloudzero-uca-tools
May 2021 - Aug 2024
CloudZero UCA Toolkit - Utilities for transforming and transmitting unit cost data
Contributions:5 releases, 10 reviews, 10 PRs in 3 years 3 months
cloudzerounit-costunitclouduca
silvexis/dynotool
Mar 2017 - Mar 2021
It's Dyn-O-Tool! Collection of tools to make living with DynamoDB easier.
Contributions:1 review, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
dyndynamodbaws
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