Kris Peterson
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Coinbase
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
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Top SchoolKris Peterson is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 12+ years building resilient infrastructure, cloud networking, and automation at companies including Coinbase, Salesforce, and AT&T. He blends deep IP routing and switching expertise with modern SDN, AWS, and infrastructure-as-code practices, implementing production solutions in Go, Python, Ruby, and Terraform. Kris has moved from hands-on TAC and lab automation roles into designing scalable network and cloud platforms, often bridging networking and software through APIs and microservices. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, he brings a systems-engineering background (BS EE) and an MS in Computer Science to complex reliability challenges. Beyond day-to-day SRE work, he has a long history of contributing to open-source projects and gaming emulation code, reflecting a persistent curiosity for low-level systems and large distributed systems integration.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Github Skills (15)
baduk9
gameserver9
grand-theft-auto9
azerothcore9
dedicated-server8
sonic7
patreon7
libressl6
openbsd5
openssl5
ssl4
cryptography4
security4
player2
opendaylight2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kapeterson/cs
Jul 2014 - May 2021
Contributions:80 commits, 60 pushes in 6 years 11 months
kapeterson/simple-network-controller
May 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 push in 3 years 7 months
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