Peter Cai
VP Of Engineering at Sigma Squared
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Cai is a seasoned software engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling product-driven engineering teams for startups and enterprises. Currently VP of Engineering at Sigma Squared, he focuses on using data and tooling to detect bias and improve operational fairness for law enforcement agencies. He previously rebuilt and scaled Privy from early hire to a 20-person, high-growth engineering organization and led its integration after acquisition by Attentive, owning hiring frameworks, BI maturity, and product integrations. A hands-on technologist who started as an engineer at Microsoft and founded a consumer hosting service with over 600,000 users, he still contributes to open-source projects—helping maintain the Savon SOAP client and modernize its CI. Based in Boston, he blends entrepreneurial grit with pragmatic system design and a talent for surfacing the right problems to solve rather than over-engineering solutions.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
java, ruby, c++, javascript, scala, python, rust
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Github Skills (14)
ruby10
testing10
release-management10
soap-client10
soap10
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
passenger6
http-header6
e-mail6
nginx6
uri6
security6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
savonrb/savon
Jul 2017 - Dec 2022
Heavy metal SOAP client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 5 reviews, 45 commits in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the SavonRB project by updating and preparing releases. They modified the version number in the `lib/savon/version.rb` file for various releases, including version bumps and release preparations. Additionally, the user made changes to the testing infrastructure, migrating from Travis CI to GitHub Actions, and refactored code related to response handling and options configurations.
metalrubygemsrubysoapheavy-metal
bostonrb/bostonrubygroup.com
Mar 2019 - Nov 2022
BostonRB Website
Contributions:1 review, 7 commits, 14 PRs in 3 years 8 months
jekyll
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