Peter Banka
Staff Software Engineer at Fastly
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Banka is a Staff Software Engineer in Portland with 14 years of professional experience and a lifetime of coding that began at age ten. He blends hands-on front-end and back-end expertise—primarily TypeScript and Ruby—with deep operational and security experience, having built TLS management systems and led large, test-driven web applications. A pragmatic engineering leader and mentor, he has been managing teams and running agile practices since the early 2000s, and has taught advanced JavaScript to help bootcamp grads join high-quality teams. Outside of core engineering he brings a systems-minded perspective from roles in security, datacenter ops, and product management, and is also a tango dancer, cyclist, activist, and father—traits that reveal a collaborative, disciplined, and community-focused approach to building teams and shipping reliable software.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at University of Nevada-Las Vegas
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
726reputation
367kreached
13answers
15questions
Github Skills (200)
visual-studio-code-extension10
hbs10
api-client10
testing10
database10
server-side10
handlebars10
cross-platform10
inline10
android10
fetch10
ios10
fastly10
react-native10
react10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
psbanka/fastly-node-rest-demo
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:43 commits, 12 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 month
apijavascriptfastlyweb-application
umamiMike/maslow
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
Shape your online habits
Contributions:74 commits, 20 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 months
javascripthabits
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