Peter Baumgartner
Founder at Lincoln Loop
Steamboat Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Baumgartner is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 18 years building mission-critical, full-stack Django applications and leading platform replatforms, performance, and security projects. He runs Lincoln Loop and AppPack from Steamboat Springs, helping CTOs and product leaders move stuck projects into production-grade systems where failure isn’t an option. Peter combines hands-on engineering with strategic product thinking—taking ideas from concept to market-ready products while also tackling DevOps, AI, and data challenges. A pragmatic open-source contributor, he improved testing and browser compatibility for the popular Sentry JavaScript SDK and helped make the Cabot monitoring project pip-installable and Django-compatible. His background includes banking IT management and a CS degree from the University of Michigan, giving him experience across enterprise and startup contexts. He’s known for digging past surface symptoms to solve the right problems and delivering measurable results at scale.
18 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Michigan
English, Spanish
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
python10
django10
packaging10
qunit10
error-handling10
devops10
test-automation10
phantomjs9
pip9
jquery8
zepto8
test-framework8
testing7
travis-ci7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
arachnys/cabot
Mar 2014 - Aug 2014
Self-hosted, easily-deployable monitoring and alerts service - like a lightweight PagerDuty
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:23 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Peter contributed to Python packaging support, making the project installable via `pip`. They implemented changes related to Celery configuration and Django settings. The user also modified the `setup.py` and `manage.py` files, indicating involvement in project setup, dependency management, and command-line interface enhancements. Furthermore, they updated templates and dependencies for Django 1.6 compatibility and fixed static file paths.
pythondeployabledevopsdjangohosted
getsentry/sentry-javascript
Feb 2012 - Aug 2012
Official Sentry SDKs for JavaScript
Role in this project:Front-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:20 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure and improving the reliability of the sentry-javascript SDK. They implemented test setup via Travis CI integration and adapted the existing tests for compatibility with both jQuery and Zepto, expanding the framework's compatibility. Additionally, they added functionality to ignore specific errors and fixed phantomjs tests, ultimately addressing issues related to browser compatibility and error handling within the test suite.
sentryerror-monitoringravenvuegreenhouse
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