Summary
Peter D'elia is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience building scalable, reliable systems and real-time event pipelines across cloud-native stacks. He has shipped production services using Go, Kafka, Protobuf, Docker, and Nomad while also improving observability and deployment resilience to reduce debugging time. At Apartment List he drove performance improvements (including a 7x data throughput gain) and led a frontend migration, and he co-created Dendro, an open-source serverless monitoring framework that simplifies distributed-system observability. His background is unusually interdisciplinary: a Ph.D. in music history and a career as a classical pianist and teacher inform a rigorous, creative approach to problem solving and developer experience. Based in Charlottesville, VA, he focuses on developer velocity, automation, and pragmatic architecture that balances reliability with rapid iteration.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree (M.A.) Music, Master's degree (M.A.) Music at Tufts University
Computer Software Engineering/Data Science, Computer Software Engineering/Data Science at Stanford Coursera
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Microsoft EdX
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Music, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Music at University of Virginia
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Launch School
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Music, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Music at Harvard University