Summary
Peter Bi is a founder and seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience building high-speed, high-volume internet services and complex web architectures. He founded Greetingland LLC and previously co-founded Surf Air, where he led development of flight scheduling, booking, and cross-platform apps, demonstrating an ability to ship consumer-facing systems at scale. His early work includes one of the first MySpace launches and leadership of the Rubicon ad engine, giving him deep expertise in performance, traffic engineering, and ad tech. Trained as an astrophysicist (PhD) with degrees in astronomy and physics, he uniquely combines rigorous scientific modeling—he still runs numerical simulations of early-universe structure formation—with pragmatic software craftsmanship in Go, C, and scripting languages. Notably, he has built sites that reached Top 200 on Alexa and specializes in architecting services for extreme throughput and sophisticated sales models. Based in Irvine, CA, he blends entrepreneurial drive with research-grade analytical thinking to solve both product and systems-level challenges.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Astronomy, Bachelor's degree Astronomy at Nanjing University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Astrophysics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Master's degree Physics, Master's degree Physics at University of Science and Technology of China
English, German, Chinese