Peter Cole
Project Lead at Auto-Owners Insurance
Lansing, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Cole is a seasoned project lead and senior developer with 11 years of professional experience driving web application and infrastructure projects from concept to production. Based in Lansing, Michigan, he currently leads projects at Auto-Owners Insurance after a long tenure at Michigan State University where he advanced from hands-on developer to technical team lead. He brings deep expertise in PHP frameworks (Symfony, Silex), Composer, GitLab/Vagrant workflows, JavaScript, SQL databases, VM and Linux/FreeBSD server provisioning, and Agile delivery practices. Known for instituting version control, quality standards, documentation, and change management, he pairs technical rigor with strong people skills—interviewing hires, organizing training, and promoting team engagement. A high-achieving graduate (Summa Cum Laude) in Computer Information Management, he combines institutional IT experience with a track record of building repeatable processes that reduce risk and speed delivery. Less obvious: he has a consistent background across both application and server layers, making him effective at bridging developer and operations concerns to ship dependable systems.
11 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at Lansing Community CollegeBachelor's Degree, Computer Information Management (Summa Cum Laude), 3.9, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Information Management (Summa Cum Laude), 3.9 at Northwood University
English
Github Skills (13)
xl-release5
stash4
bolt3
php3
bitbucket-cloud3
bitbucket2
smoke2
markdown2
rest-api1
api1
rest1
slack1
documentation1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
peterlcole/bolt-slack
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:5 releases, 20 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 days
slackeventsbolt
peterlcole/vagrantron
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 5 branches in 22 days
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