Summary
Peter Kagey is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics with 11 years of professional experience bridging rigorous academic research in combinatorics and practical backend software engineering. He built security- and integrity-focused web services in Ruby and Scala at Dexcom before returning to academia for a Ph.D. at USC, and now teaches and researches while writing code in Python and Haskell. His technical strengths include reasoning about correctness and finding subtle, security-critical bugs, and he thrives in collaborative, pair-programming environments that prize expressive code. Based in Los Angeles, he combines award-winning mathematical training with hands-on systems experience, making him effective at turning complex business or theoretical problems into auditable, well-factored solutions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Pure Mathematics, PhD, Pure Mathematics at University of Southern California
BS, Mathematics, BS, Mathematics at Oregon State University
Portland State University