J Peterson
Senior Staff Software Engineer at 235nuclear, LLC
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJ Peterson is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years building robust, maintainable systems across cloud, web, and automation domains from Tucson, Arizona. He combines deep expertise in Clojure and Python with practical experience in .NET, JavaScript, and infrastructure tools like AWS, nginx, RabbitMQ, and Redis to deliver pragmatic solutions tailored to customer needs. As founder of 235nuclear LLC and a senior engineer at companies including Clumio, Cresta, and the LSST project, he balances hands-on development with systems-level thinking and DevOps leadership. He has a track record of shipping distributed services, web apps, and automation tools, often opting for simple, usable designs over complexity. Comfortable across platforms from macOS and Linux to legacy Windows, he brings a generalist’s curiosity—fluent in languages from Clojure and Python to Scheme and Smalltalk—which lets him choose the right tool for the problem. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous requirements into maintainable, production-ready systems.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Github Skills (179)
python10
hyper-v10
windows10
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vmware-fusion10
ubuntu10
rhel10
vms10
centos10
linux10
packer10
science10
vagrant10
redhat10
virtio10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
lsst-epo/investigations
Nov 2017 - Jul 2018
LSST EPO astronomy investigations using Jupyter Notebooks.
Contributions:56 PRs, 66 pushes, 32 branches in 7 months
investigationslsstpythonjupyter-notebooknotebooks
jmatt/ansible-elasticsearch-packages
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 3 PRs, 12 pushes in 11 months
lsstansiblegalaxyansible-galaxyelasticsearch
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