Peter Gorniak
Head Of Artificial Intelligence at DeviantArt, Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolPeter Gorniak is a Head of Artificial Intelligence with 20 years of experience blending large-scale machine learning, data visualization, and production engineering to turn data into actionable products. He leads AI at DeviantArt after co-founding a data science consultancy that built recommendation, personalization, and visualization systems used by millions. His background spans academia and industry—from a PhD and postdoc at MIT studying situated language and cognition to leading AI on major game titles like Max Payne 3—giving him rare depth in language understanding, user modeling, and interactive systems. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he has improved moto’s DynamoDB emulation to better match AWS semantics, reflecting a pragmatic focus on robustness and compatibility. Based in Vancouver, he combines research rigor with hands-on software craftsmanship to build intelligent, user-centered products.
20 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Media Arts and Sciences, PhD Media Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyM.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
German
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Github Skills (9)
amazon-dynamodb10
boto10
dynamodb10
backend10
aws10
back-end-development10
python10
unit-testing7
regular-expression7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
getmoto/moto
Nov 2016 - Jun 2017
A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 4 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Peter contributed significantly to the `moto` library, focusing on improving the DynamoDB2 implementation. Their work involved refactoring code to align with the AWS specifications, fixing bugs related to query conditions and key handling, and enhancing the update expression functionality. Several commits addressed Python 2.6 and 3 compatibility issues. The contributions primarily centered on improving the accuracy and stability of the DynamoDB2 emulation within the `moto` framework.
ec2bototestinginfrastructureaws-infrastructure
sumpfork/bgtools_web
Dec 2016 - Jan 2023
Boardgame Tools Website, especially for Dominion Dividers
Contributions:61 commits, 11 PRs, 53 pushes in 6 years 1 month
designerdividerscapistranoscrumuser-interface
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