Erik Peterson
Consultant, Software Engineering at Self-employed
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolErik Peterson is a seasoned software engineering consultant and former engineering director with 16 years of experience building and scaling web and backend systems. He has led multi-team organizations responsible for payments, underwriting, fraud detection, bank integrations, CD/CI, and customer operations, and later served as VP/Director of Engineering at OneMain Financial. Based in Chicago, he now consults while angel-investing in 750+ startups across aerospace, fintech, biotech and computing, bringing both deep technical judgment and market-facing perspective. A pragmatic Ruby enthusiast with hands-on tooling familiarity (Rails, SQL, nginx, Redis, Chef, Git, Vim), he combines operational leadership with a developer’s craftsmanship and a relentless drive to improve the status quo. Notably, his background spans both high-volume financial systems and early-stage tech investing, giving him rare visibility into product, risk, and growth trade-offs.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Business Computer Science, Business Computer Science at Taylor UniversityMath Physics Mechanical Engineering, Math Physics Mechanical Engineering at Glen Oaks Community College
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
caching10
lookup10
lookup-table10
lru10
thread10
rubygems9
ruby9
rails9
ruby-on-rails9
activerecord8
api8
syntax6
nginx6
macos6
cookie6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
companygardener/dotfiles
May 2010 - Jan 2023
Contributions:157 commits, 44 pushes in 12 years 11 months
companygardener/lookup_by
Nov 2012 - Jun 2022
A thread-safe lookup table cache for ActiveRecord
Contributions:125 commits, 13 PRs, 60 pushes in 9 years 9 months
lrurailscachingrubythread
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