Erik Peterson
Technical Recruiter at Genesis10
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Peterson is a seasoned technical recruiter based in Minneapolis with 16 years of experience helping organizations scale talent and streamline hiring processes. He combines strong empathy, communication, and collaboration skills with meticulous attention to detail to enable candidates and hiring teams to perform at their best. Erik has hands-on staffing and onboarding experience across high-volume environments—from payroll and scheduling for 30+ employees to coordinating large museum hiring drives—and currently supports talent solutions at Genesis10. Unusually for a recruiter, he also contributes to open-source Ruby projects and QA test suites, demonstrating technical literacy and a practical understanding of developer workflows. This blend of recruiting acumen and code-focused curiosity helps him bridge technical and human perspectives when matching people to roles.
17 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Human Resource Development, Bachelor's degree, Human Resource Development at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (10)
arraylist10
programming-language10
test-driven-design10
mspec10
virtual-machine10
rubyspec10
ruby10
spec9
performance-optimization8
testing7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rubinius/rubinius
Oct 2011 - Mar 2012
The Rubinius Language Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Erik primarily contributed to the Rubinius project by fixing bugs related to the Array class, specifically addressing issues in the 1.9 specification. Their commits focused on modifying the `zip` and `unshift` methods, ensuring correct behavior and handling edge cases like frozen arrays. Additionally, they added a block implementation to the `uniq!` method, and implemented the `repeated_combination` method. These changes indicate a focus on improving the core functionality and compliance with Ruby 1.9 standards.
rubiniusprogramming-languagesvirtual-machine
ruby/spec
Oct 2011 - Mar 2012
The Ruby Spec Suite aka ruby/spec
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Erik primarily contributed to the Ruby spec suite, focusing on writing and modifying test cases. Their commits include adding new specifications for features like Array#zip and Hash#fetch, as well as addressing existing tests related to Kernel#exec. They also reverted a previous change, further indicating a focus on maintaining the accuracy and reliability of the test suite. The work directly supports the quality assurance of the Ruby programming language.
rubylanguage-specsmspecrubyspec
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