Peter Coles is a seasoned entrepreneur and software leader with 14 years of experience building consumer and B2B products from idea to scale. As co-founder of Superset he’s focused on simplifying business operations for professional fitness coaches, and previously turned a popular open-source Chrome extension into GoFullPage, growing it from 600K to 4M+ users and shipping a premium in-browser editor. He blends hands-on front-end engineering—evidenced by UI/UX-driven open-source work on Chrome capture tooling and markdown CSS—with product strategy, customer support design, and serverless SaaS infrastructure. His background includes scaling teams and launch-day engineering at Ringly and driving large web initiatives at eBay, giving him experience across startups and enterprise. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he pairs deep technical fluency with a user-first approach to reliability and growth. He holds a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
One-click full page screen captures in Google Chrome
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:85 commits, 7 PRs, 21 pushes in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of a Chrome extension for full-page screen captures. They refactored the capture process to a single-click action, added visual cues such as a progress bar, and incorporated better error handling for invalid pages. Significant changes were made to the popup.js, popup.html, and page.js files, indicating a focus on UI/UX improvements and ensuring the extension's reliability and user-friendliness.
CSS for making regular HTML look like plain-text markdown.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:34 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and the overall user experience of the markdown-css project. Their work included significant changes to the demo layout and the addition of interactive features, such as toggles and a demo mode. They also addressed styling issues and incorporated responsive design elements to improve the project's usability and presentation across different devices.
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