Jesse Peterson
Client Platform Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarJesse Peterson is a seasoned Client Platform Engineer based in Seattle with 16 years of experience building and automating client-facing infrastructure and device management systems. Currently at Facebook, he combines deep systems and backend expertise—especially in Go and Python—with practical experience in macOS packaging, MDM, and certificate/CSR tooling. A long-time contributor to notable open-source projects like autopkg and micromdm, he’s helped harden provisioning, signing, and packaging workflows used in real-world device fleets. He also brings entrepreneurial and consulting perspective from founding a startup and running an IT practice, which shows up in his pragmatic, security-minded approach to tooling and automation. Notably, his work often focuses on the gritty integration points—downloaders, importers, and config handling—where reliability matters most.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (26)
crypto10
cert10
python10
packaging10
configuration-management10
automation10
certificate10
go10
cryptography10
golang10
xml10
macos10
automations10
api-design9
restful-api9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
micromdm/scep
Jun 2016 - May 2022
Go SCEP server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 19 reviews, 47 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily focused on enhancing the `micromdm/scep` repository, a Go SCEP server. They contributed to several core functionalities, including handling certificate retrieval, error wrapping during CSR parsing, and implementing a pluggable CSR signing framework. Their work demonstrates expertise in Go programming, cryptographic operations, and the SCEP protocol. They also made improvements to the command-line client and depot/signer aspects of the project.
golangscep-servercryptoscep-clientscep
micromdm/micromdm
Nov 2016 - Jan 2023
Mobile Device Management server
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 120 reviews, 148 commits in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jesse contributed to the development of a Mobile Device Management (MDM) server, focusing on features related to certificate management and server configuration. They implemented functionality to allow the passing of PEM-formatted MDM certificates and keys, and added options for configuring listen addresses for both HTTPS and HTTP redirect servers. The user also implemented a command-line helper to work with DEP tokens, generating self-signed certificates and decrypting deploy.apple.com tokens. Furthermore, they added API authentication to protect critical endpoints.
device-managementmacadminmacadminsandroidmobile-device-management
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