Peter Flynn
Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe Systems
South San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Flynn is a Senior Computer Scientist with 14 years of engineering experience based in South San Francisco, currently at Adobe after prior roles at Oracle and an internship at Xerox PARC. He blends a formal background in Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, and Cognitive Science from Cornell with deep hands-on expertise in build, release, and automation engineering. At Adobe he has focused on streamlining complex build and installer workflows—evidenced by contributions to the well-known adobe/brackets-shell project where he automated installer and build-number injection processes. Comfortable operating at the intersection of developer tooling and user-facing products, he brings both systems-level rigor and UX-aware thinking to release engineering. Colleagues describe him as a practical problem-solver who reduces friction in shipping software while preserving auditability and repeatability. He quietly favors improving developer workflows and build reliability as a way to accelerate product teams.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BA Human-Computer Interaction Computer Science Cognitive Science, BA Human-Computer Interaction Computer Science Cognitive Science at Cornell University
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Github contributions (5)
adobe/brackets-shell
Aug 2012 - Apr 2015
CEF3-based application shell for Brackets.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:29 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the build and installer scripts for the Brackets application. Their work involved creating and modifying batch scripts and configuration files for Windows installers, including staging the necessary files and assets. They also worked on integrating a build number injection script and made changes to the Mac installer build process. Their contributions focused on automating and streamlining the build and release process for the application.
extendscriptcef3bracketsextensibilityshell
peterflynn/everyscrub
Jun 2012 - Apr 2014
Extension for Brackets that turns every CSS number/color into a draggable "scrubber"
Contributions:15 commits in 1 year 9 months
scrubbercssturnsbracketsdraggable
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