Pete Doherty
Principal Owner at 21st Century Alchemy
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolPete Doherty is a seasoned software developer, solutions architect, and DevOps practitioner with 15 years of hands-on experience building resilient web and cloud systems for clients ranging from Bleacher Report to MycoWorks. As founder and Principal Owner of 21st Century Alchemy, he blends creative technology with pragmatic engineering—shipping CMSes, data-crunching services, and lab-grade mobile web apps while doing security audits, migrations, and performance work. Comfortable across stacks (Python, Ruby, Clojure, React, Elm) and clouds (AWS, GCP, Heroku), he’s fluent in containerization, CI/CD, and automated testing. An active open-source contributor, he improved robustness and test coverage in the widely used tmuxinator project, showing attention to maintainability and edge cases. Based in the New York City area, Pete pairs entrepreneurial initiative with studio-level client experience, often tackling projects that bridge media, manufacturing, and interactive installations.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at Roger Williams University
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Github Skills (25)
testing10
rspec10
ruby10
scripting9
coffeescript9
javascript9
mongoose9
jquery9
heroku9
nodejs9
tmux9
mongodb9
shell9
html9
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
tmuxinator/tmuxinator
Jul 2015 - Jun 2022
Manage complex tmux sessions easily
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 7 reviews, 186 commits in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Pete primarily contributed to improving the functionality and maintainability of the project by addressing potential errors related to project names and code style. They refactored code, fixing issues related to projects with numeric names and ensured code style compliance. The user also added helper methods and improved the test suite to ensure the correct behavior of the application, including verifying command execution and handling of different session scenarios. These changes enhanced the overall robustness and adherence to coding standards of the project.
tmux
ethagnawl/rmuxinator
Dec 2019 - Sep 2022
tmux session configuration utility
Contributions:4 releases, 154 commits, 32 PRs in 2 years 9 months
tmuxcli-configurationcli-utilitydotfilescli
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