Pete Waterman
FedRAMP Director at GSA
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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SeniorPete Waterman is a seasoned technology leader with over a decade of experience modernizing federal IT and making secure cloud services accessible across government. As FedRAMP Director at GSA, he combines deep operational engineering roots with policy and program leadership to lower friction for agencies and cloud providers adopting secure cloud and zero trust architectures. His background includes hands-on systems engineering, building early private-cloud platforms and platform engineering at Blackboard and startups, plus strategic advising at the Technology Modernization Fund and USDS where he helped translate private-sector practices into government-ready solutions. He balances big-picture policy work with practical delivery, coaching teams on NIST RMF, FedRAMP, and launching resilient services without needing the newest tech. Outside work he’s an avid traveler who has repeatedly turned multi-month global motorcycle journeys into periods of reflection and career transition, a detail that underscores his appetite for risk, resilience, and long-term perspective.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish
Github Skills (17)
in-progress9
factor9
indexer8
stash7
poe6
ethereum6
blockchain6
https-client6
java6
pathofexile6
hyperledger5
angularjs4
p2p4
apache4
angular3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
trackpete/whoispete.com
Oct 2018 - Jun 2022
Experimenting with a new website
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 14 pushes in 3 years 8 months
experimenting
trackpete/exiletools-indexer
Nov 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:9 releases, 133 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 2 months
in-progressfactorindexer
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