Peter Kieltyka
Executive Vice President Of Engineering at Polygon Labs
Canada
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Top SchoolPeter Kieltyka is an experienced engineering leader and founder with 11+ years of building and scaling developer-focused products, now serving as Executive Vice President of Engineering at Polygon Labs. He co-founded and led startups including Sequence and Pressly, combining hands-on technical ownership with company-level strategy and product delivery. A pragmatic back-end engineer by trade, Peter contributes to notable open-source projects like go-chi/chi, improving routing, middleware, and test coverage for Go HTTP services. Based in Canada and trained in software engineering and management at McMaster University, he blends entrepreneurial grit with deep operational experience in distributed systems and developer tooling. Notably, he retains an active coding mindset—publishing work on GitHub and personally shipping infrastructure improvements even while leading large engineering organizations.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate, Software Engineering & Management, Undergraduate, Software Engineering & Management at McMaster University
English, Polish
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Github Skills (14)
golang10
http10
router10
middleware10
go10
api10
routers10
testing10
salesforce-rest-api9
rest-api9
json6
activesupport6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
go-chi/chi
Dec 2017 - Jan 2023
lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 releases, 19 reviews, 150 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the `go-chi/chi` repository by implementing and refining routing functionalities within the Go HTTP router. Their work involved addressing issues related to trailing slashes in sub-routers and ensuring correct routing behavior. The user also updated and improved the middleware components, specifically for compressing responses and handling content types. Furthermore, they contributed to upgrading the testing infrastructure by adding new test cases.
golangapiidiomaticgo-httphttp-services
go-chi/jwtauth
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
JWT authentication middleware for Go HTTP services
Contributions:8 releases, 2 reviews, 13 commits in 4 years 4 months
jwtauthgolanggo-httphttp-servicesauthentication
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