Pete Zimmerman
Chief Operating Officer
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPete Zimmerman is a technology and security executive with 12 years of experience leading product, security, and operations across startups, enterprise cloud, and government. Currently COO at Totogi after a tenure as CTO and senior security leader at Ro and Cloudflare, he has repeatedly built teams and launched programs that reduced risk and drove measurable business outcomes—most notably centralized authentication and a VDP/bug bounty that mitigated critical patient-impacting vulnerabilities. His background combines hands-on engineering (MS in Computer Science from Princeton) with operational leadership shaped by high-stakes roles at the White House, NSA, and Defense Digital Service, where he integrated telemetry and removed active threat actors from government networks. An active contributor to privacy-measurement tooling, he has code contributions to OpenWPM focused on backend automation, crawl history, and bot mitigation. Known for translating complex security and compliance requirements into deployable products, he thrives at the intersection of product, engineering, and mission-critical operations.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (11)
automation10
automations10
sqlite10
python10
database-management9
selenium-ide8
crawling8
selenium8
webscraping7
firefox7
privacy6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openwpm/OpenWPM
Apr 2014 - May 2014
A web privacy measurement framework
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Pete primarily contributed to the project by modifying existing code and adding new features. They implemented changes to the task manager, data aggregator, and run_simple_crawl.py files. The contributions included database schema updates, crawl history tracking, profile generation and integration of bot mitigation techniques, indicating a focus on backend and automation aspects.
firefoxprivacysecuritymeasurementpython3
ptzimmerman/cloudflare-docs
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Cloudflare’s developer docs.
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 7 days
cloudflarecloudflare-workers
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