Peter Geertsema
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Geertsema is a software engineer with nine years of experience building production systems across startups and Google, currently contributing to News on Search. He blends backend and full-stack expertise—C#, Java, JavaScript, SQL, and cloud infrastructure—with a history of reducing latency and automating manual workflows that recovered millions in value. As Manatee's first engineer and a YC alum contributor, he shipped core backtesting, data ingestion, and trading infrastructure while also leading research infrastructure and mentoring teams at Smith Investment Fund. A longtime tinkerer and Eagle Scout, he pairs disciplined leadership with pragmatism, moving quickly from prototypes to reliable, low-maintenance systems. He graduated with a 3.9 BS in Computer Science from University of Maryland and has a track record of cutting technical debt and improving developer productivity in large codebases.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Montgomery Blair High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.9, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.9 at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (35)
gitflow8
synchronization8
data-set8
artifactory8
intellij7
security7
mkdocs7
pycharm7
documentation6
jetbrains6
intellij-plugin5
jenkins-plugin5
patch5
jenkins4
lisp4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
peterpie123/step-2020
May 2020 - Jun 2020
For Google STEP 2020 Internship
Contributions:26 PRs, 142 pushes, 16 branches in 24 days
javascriptreactnodejsinternship
googleinterns/step37-2020
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:450 commits, 41 PRs, 294 pushes in 1 month
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