Pete Stevenson
Founder at PAX Markets, Inc.
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolPete Stevenson is a founder and technologist with 14 years of experience building high-performance markets and systems, most recently launching PAX Markets to reimagine crypto and capital-market infrastructure from Palo Alto. He combines deep research pedigree (Ph.D. from Stanford on memory deduplication) with hands-on engineering across hardware, low-latency trading, and cloud-native observability, having been a founding engineer at Pixie and a quantitative researcher at Citadel. His contributions to Pixie focused on improving profiler performance, Java test infrastructure, and stability—evidence of a pragmatic operator who optimizes for accuracy and efficiency at scale. A former submarine officer and instructor, he brings disciplined, safety-first leadership and a systems mindset to product and team design.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Control Systems Engineering, B.S. Control Systems Engineering at United States Naval AcademyNNPSPh.D. Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
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Github Skills (12)
performance-tuning10
go10
ebpf10
profiling10
dockers9
java9
kubernetes-pods9
docker9
javas9
kubernetes9
automated-tests8
continuous-integration8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
pixie-io/pixie
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:235 reviews, 218 commits, 69 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Pete primarily worked on improving the performance and stability of the Pixie platform's performance profiler. They added new metrics for gauging system resource usage and fixed several bugs that caused issues with Java symbolization. The user also introduced code for improving the efficiency of the core components, such as the use of a high-resolution clock for more accurate timestamps and the removal of unnecessary code. The user also helped with improving the infrastructure and deployment by working on Java test infrastructure.
pixieobservabilitymonitoringkubernetes-nativeeks
etep/resume
May 2016 - Aug 2023
Contributions:9 pushes in 7 years 4 months
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