Peter Bailey
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Altadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Bailey is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building power-aware, reliable systems for hyperscale datacenters and scientific instrumentation. At Google he leads a team focused on telemetry, diagnosis, configuration, and power quality to optimize availability and load shaping across large deployments. His background blends deep academic research—PhD work modeling application power and architecting energy-efficient parallel workflows—with hands-on firmware and real-time control development in C/C++ for telescopes and embedded systems. Peter has repeatedly turned research into production controls (e.g., datacenter power capping and peak shaving) and brings a rare combination of systems-level power expertise and production software engineering. Based in Altadena, CA, he pairs rigorous measurement-driven approaches with practical tooling to improve reliability at scale.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (73)
network-graph10
transmission10
distributed-computing10
perf10
fault-tolerance10
linux10
geo-replication10
hsm10
high-performance10
nas10
bandwidth10
qos10
torrent9
scalable9
wolfram-language9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pyrovski/powertools
Feb 2012 - Dec 2014
Contributions:164 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 10 months
pyrovski/cgroup-interface-restriction
Mar 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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