Peter Bailie
Software Engineer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
City of Schenectady, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Bailie is a software engineer with ten years of experience building and maintaining open-source and higher-education infrastructure, specializing in Ubuntu, Apache, MySQL/Postgres, PHP, and JavaScript with a strong focus on backend systems and DevOps. At Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute he contributes to research computing and back-end projects like the Submitty automated grading system, where he has driven system configuration, dependency management, and deployment automation. He pairs practical sysadmin skills—provisioning VMs with Vagrant/VirtualBox and scripting with Perl—with broad language exposure (C/C++, C#, Java, Python) and an editor-centric workflow in VS Code. A former adjunct instructor and desktop support technician, he blends teaching experience and hands-on hardware maintenance with large-scale support for academic environments. Notably, he often handles end-to-end installations and custom setup scripting, reflecting a knack for making complex academic tooling reproducible and reliable.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 3.96, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 3.96 at The College of Saint RoseAssociate of Science, Computer Science, 3.67, Associate of Science, Computer Science, 3.67 at SUNY Adirondack
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Github Skills (14)
system-administration10
linux10
bash10
postgresql10
devops9
webconfig9
webserver9
php8
autograd8
auto-generate8
apache8
ed255197
javas6
java6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Submitty/Submitty
Aug 2015 - Oct 2022
Homework Submission, Automated Grading, and TA grading system.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 139 commits, 92 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily worked on setting up the Submitty system, including the installation and configuration of necessary packages and services. They made changes to the system's setup script (.setup/install_system.sh) to include various dependencies like Java, Racket, and Swi-prolog and configure networking. Additionally, the user modified the grading server's configuration files and scripts to create and configure courses, as well as added new features for admin users. The user's contributions show a strong focus on system configuration, dependency management, and overall backend infrastructure.
reactsubmittygrading-systemhomework-serverteaching-tools
Submitty/SysadminTools
Jun 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:4 reviews, 28 commits, 31 PRs in 4 years 8 months
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