Peter Briggs
Senior Software Engineer at Proxima
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Briggs is a senior software engineer with eight years of experience building backend-heavy systems across startups and enterprise environments, currently based in New York. He blends applied mathematics roots with hands-on engineering to deliver cloud-native services, GIS pipelines, and scientific-computing workflows using Python, C#, Java/Kotlin, Postgres, and AWS. His background includes migrating geospatial ETL to serverless and containerized architectures, implementing monitoring and data-lineage systems, and shaping APIs and integrations at scale. At early-stage Kindly Human he focused on backend reliability and infra automation (Terraform, AWS) while shipping full-stack features in TypeScript/React. Peter thrives on domain-rich problems—particularly aviation weather, GIS, and scientific data—and often pairs performance-minded engineering with pragmatic monitoring and security practices. He combines research experience in spatial modeling with a track record of productionizing complex data pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics at Carleton College
Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
tunneling9
geometric8
containment8
geometry6
localhost6
manipulation5
ngrok5
python5
cms1
content-repository1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
peterbriggs42/mary-dot-com
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
peterbriggs42/weather-app
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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