Jeffrey Peterson is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building web products, developer tools, and peer-to-peer systems. He has led engineering and product work at startups and labs—helping ship Webflow’s React migration, co-founding a YC-backed startup, and contributing backend synchronization and key-sharing logic to Automerge/Hypermerge for serverless collaborative apps. At Ink & Switch he explored novel interaction models and p2p architectures, and more recently consults through his firm Craft & Concept to help teams design and build robust web products. Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks, he blends hands-on engineering with product sense and a taste for research-driven prototypes. Based in Sturgis, Michigan, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a history of shipping pragmatic, production-ready systems.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Western Michigan University
Build p2p collaborative applications without any server infrastructure in Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:254 commits, 29 PRs, 142 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jeffrey primarily focused on developing the back-end logic for a p2p collaborative application built with Node.js and Automerge. Their contributions involved integrating and utilizing Automerge for data synchronization, optimizing data management, and integrating a new key sharing and replication system within the hypermerge framework. The user also addressed and fixed various bugs, including off-by-one errors and issues with document updates, ensuring the reliability of the application.
Contributions:243 commits, 120 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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