Peter Alfvin
Software Engineer at VMware
Manhattan Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Alfvin is a seasoned full-stack software engineer based in Manhattan Beach with a dozen years of modern industry experience layered atop decades of hands-on development and leadership dating back to early workstation-era projects. He currently helps teams at VMware Tanzu boost developer productivity, drawing on a broad stack that includes mobile (iOS), front-end (React/Redux), and back-end systems (Ruby/Rails, Java/Kotlin/Spring) as well as CI/CD and container orchestration. Peter blends practitioner-level coding with lean and agile coaching, having led transformations that cut time-to-market substantially and managed development groups for large-scale printing and imaging platforms. An open-source contributor, he improved CI visibility and GitHub status monitoring in the vmware-archive/projectmonitor tool, adding nuanced error reporting and usability refinements. His academic background in mathematics and computer science (Amherst, USC, UCLA) underpins a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to solving complex engineering and process problems.
12 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaMathematics, Mathematics at Amherst CollegeUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
rspec10
rails10
ruby10
ruby-on-rails10
testing9
cicd9
github9
capybara9
regex9
travis-ci9
instance-variables9
stripe-payments9
mocking9
sql9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
vmware-archive/projectmonitor
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
Big Visible Chart CI aggregator
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on enhancing the project's functionality and user experience by implementing new features and addressing error messaging. They worked on integrating Travis CI and TeamCity, adding specific error reporting for different project types within the application's JavaScript. The user also refactored project configurations to improve usability and added new features related to GitHub status monitoring. This included the implementation of an "impaired" status for GitHub issues.
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palfvin/vtt-app
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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