Summary
Peter Eltgroth is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building and integrating cloud-native platforms, observability, and CI/CD solutions across startups and large enterprises. Rooted in a work ethic forged on a dairy farm, he pairs tenacity with pragmatic leadership—mentoring teams, setting business-aligned priorities, and delivering reliable production systems. His background spans platform engineering at VMware and Pivotal, hands-on migrations to OpenShift and TKG, and practical implementations of OpenTelemetry, GitOps, and kustomize to streamline multi-environment deployments. Comfortable rescuing late features or architecting migrations from legacy systems, he often finds practical solutions others miss by combining a holistic systems view with attention to operational safety. Based in St. Cloud, MN, he runs a consulting practice while contributing engineering productivity expertise at Thrivent.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science Music: Vocal Performance, BA Computer Science Music: Vocal Performance at Saint John's University