Peter Caisse
Senior Software Engineer II at Umbra
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Caisse is a Senior Software Engineer II based in Philadelphia with 13 years of experience building web applications, specializing in geospatial and life sciences domains. He has progressed from early web and support roles to technical leadership at Opentrons/Pandemic Response Lab and currently contributes to product engineering at Umbra. Peter combines hands-on full-stack development with a mission-driven focus, delivering practical systems that support scientific and public-health outcomes. His background blends a BS in Information Systems with graduate study in linguistics, giving him an unusual mix of technical rigor and attention to language and data interpretation. Colleagues know him for translating complex domain requirements into reliable, production-ready software and for thriving in interdisciplinary teams. He prefers work that intersects technical craft with real-world impact, especially where spatial data or life-science workflows matter.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Université de Technologie de TroyesBS, Information Systems, BS, Information Systems at Drexel UniversityMA, Linguistics, MA, Linguistics at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Portuguese, French
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Github Skills (124)
code-golf9
phonetics9
evaluation9
earth-observation9
geospatial9
save9
geotrellis9
foundry9
crossword9
raster9
wrapper9
scalable8
web-application8
maml8
visualization8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pcaisse/dotfiles
Oct 2017 - Nov 2024
Contributions:197 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
pcaisse/language-map-us
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
Language map of the United States
Contributions:387 commits, 23 PRs, 319 pushes in 5 years
crosswordphoneticslanguage-mapordmap
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