Peter Gess
Manager, Solutions Engineering at Wiz
United States
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Top SchoolPeter Gess is a solutions engineering leader with nine years of experience building and scaling customer-facing technical teams across cloud security and enterprise infrastructure. Currently Manager of Solutions Engineering at Wiz, he progressed rapidly through roles from Enterprise Solutions Engineer to leadership, bringing hands-on technical sales experience from HashiCorp and earlier SaaS and consulting roles. He blends technical fluency from a Computer Software Engineering program with a liberal-arts background in history, psychology, and Bible studies, which informs a pragmatic, people-first approach to complex problem solving. Known for translating deep technical concepts into business outcomes, he has repeatedly led cross-functional deals and enablement initiatives that shorten sales cycles and increase adoption. An early coach and long-time team player, he brings the discipline of coaching to mentoring engineers and building high-performing presales organizations.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. History Psychology Bible, B.A. History Psychology Bible at University of Northwestern – St. PaulComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Treehouse
Github Skills (49)
secrets10
vault10
hashicorp-vault9
terraform9
security9
hashicorp9
bcrypt9
golang9
go9
encryption9
access-management9
automation8
aws8
displays8
npm-cli7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Peter-Gess/terraform-ec2
Dec 2019 - Jan 2024
Contributions:18 PRs, 23 pushes, 12 branches in 4 years 2 months
Peter-Gess/IaC
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:267 PRs, 57 pushes, 269 branches in 2 years 1 month
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