Peter Brown
Software Engineer at Seated
Burlington, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Brown is a pragmatic software engineer with 16 years of experience building maintainable web applications and leading small, high-performing teams from Burlington, Vermont. Currently at Seated after co-founding and developing at Agilion, he combines hands-on backend work with thoughtful engineering practices that prioritize product success over sheer velocity. He contributes to open-source Elixir tooling—improving JSON:API serialization and DSL ergonomics—which underscores his attention to robust interfaces and developer experience. Known for being opinionated yet collaborative, he thrives where peers push him to grow and values clear, well-documented code as much as meeting deadlines. Outside work he’s an “unbelievably humble and talented dad,” a reminder that practical empathy informs both his leadership and engineering style.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at University of VermontWeb Programming Certificate, Web Programming Certificate at Champlain CollegeAdvanced Ruby Programming, Advanced Ruby Programming at The Pragmatic Studio (w/ Dave Thomas and Chad Fowler)
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Github Skills (31)
elixir10
rspec10
json-api10
hashmap10
ruby10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
testing9
exceptions9
unit-testing9
debugging9
capybara9
validation9
forms9
ide9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vt-elixir/ja_serializer
Mar 2016 - Sep 2022
JSONAPI.org Serialization in Elixir.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 67 commits, 58 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the Elixir-based JSONAPI.org serialization library. They focused on fixing bugs related to parsing lists, updating documentation to reflect code changes, preparing the project for new releases, and improving the DSL for relationships. Furthermore, the user addressed build warnings and standardized code formatting across the project. They also improved handling of relationships and refined the DSL for has_one relationships.
jsonapielixirserializationjson-apijson
crowdproof/ux-burlington
Feb 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:126 commits, 8 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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