Peter Goldberg
Software Engineer at Attio
Washington, District of Columbia, United Kingdom
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolPeter Goldberg is a software engineer with nine years of experience building developer tooling and front-end infrastructure, currently driving engineering at Attio after a multi-year tenure at Palantir. A Harvard CS graduate and former Palantir engineer, he specializes in scalable monorepos, build tooling, and optimizing developer workflows to boost productivity across large codebases. He contributes to prominent open-source projects—working on webpack core optimizations (notably the SideEffectsFlagPlugin) and improving the React-based Blueprint UI toolkit—demonstrating fluency across front-end and back-end concerns. His background includes building production-facing conversion tools in healthcare and internal CRM features, showing a practical bent for shipping usable internal tools as well as public libraries. Based in Washington, D.C., Peter blends deep technical understanding of bundlers and build systems with a history of smoothing UX and build processes for large engineering teams. He’s comfortable digging into low-level module semantics as well as high-level developer experience improvements, an uncommon combination that helps teams move fast without sacrificing correctness.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Harvard UniversityNeedham High School
English
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (24)
javascript10
blueprint10
ui-components10
sass10
typescript10
ui-design10
bundle10
webpack10
toolkits10
component-kit10
webpacker10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
bundling10
react10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
webpack/webpack
May 2022 - Oct 2024
A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the optimization and bug fixing of the `SideEffectsFlagPlugin` within the webpack core. Their work involved modifying code related to module dependencies, re-exports, and optimizing the order of module processing. Additionally, the user added a new test case related to side effects in module loading and made a minor tweak to the plugin's logic. This indicates the user's expertise in webpack's internal workings and module handling.
amdloaderscode-splittingcustom-stuffcompiler
palantir/blueprint
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
A React-based UI toolkit for the web
Role in this project:Frontend Developer
Frontend DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 3 commits, 11 PRs in 3 days
Contributions summary:Peter contributed to the UI toolkit by migrating to dart-sass, refactoring build scripts, and fixing less variable conversion. They updated custom sass functions and implemented fixes in the section component, ensuring correct header rendering. The user demonstrated skills in component-based UI development and build process management.
reactblueprintocto-correct-managedsassjavascript
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.