Peter Guy
Engineering Manager at Sourcegraph
Grants Pass, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Guy is an engineering manager and polyglot software veteran with over 16 years of hands-on experience and two decades in related roles, currently leading Code Search and Cody AI teams at Sourcegraph. He pairs deep systems and infrastructure roots—from ISDN/T1-era network ops, chroot and FreeBSD jails—to modern cloud-native tooling like Docker, Kubernetes, and observability-driven reliability work. A pragmatic full‑stacker, he ships services and client apps in Go, TypeScript/React (and increasingly SvelteKit), while still reaching for Python, shell, and occasional Kotlin when the job demands. At Sourcegraph he has driven cross-platform initiatives (desktop Swift apps, Perforce integrations) and improved platform stability and deployability, including contributions to a prominent Code AI platform repository. Known for turning long-standing backlogs into focused deliveries, he combines customer-facing product sense with low-level troubleshooting chops. Based in Oregon, he brings a practical, tool-agnostic approach informed by rare experience spanning PBXs to modern AI-infused developer tooling.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at California State University, Northridge
Github Skills (12)
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script10
go10
shell10
scripting10
perforce10
dockers9
cicd9
code-search9
docker9
code-intelligence8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sourcegraph/sourcegraph-public-snapshot
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Code AI platform with Code Search & Cody
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:209 reviews, 7 commits, 150 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Peter's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Sourcegraph application's functionality and improving its deployment process. They implemented features such as the integration of native ctags and preserved file permissions during updates. Additionally, they updated dependencies for building Perforce-related components and refactored the handling of commit messages for batch changes. The user also worked on improving the stability and observability of the platform, resolving OOM issues with the `p4-fusion` process.
sourcegraphcode-generationrepo-type-maindeveloper-toolslsif-enabled
peterguy/special-parakeet
May 2023 - Aug 2024
just a test repository
Contributions:12 PRs, 48 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 3 months
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