Peter Lau
Co-Founder at Stealth Mode Startup
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolPeter Lau is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 13 years of experience building scalable web and data-visualization systems from embedded firmware to high-volume cloud services. As Co-Founder of a stealth startup and former DevEx expert at Netflix, he led modernization of the open-source Conductor UI and owns an internal UI suite that surfaces complex media workflows across multiple mission-critical services. His background spans ridesharing and transit systems—where he built a geospatial, versioned ingestion pipeline and optimized online routing—to EV battery firmware and large-scale consumer sites like Rotten Tomatoes. He combines strong front-end expertise (notably workflow diagram and task search UX for Netflix/conductor) with backend and infrastructure instincts, having driven migrations, service-architecture replacements, and caching strategies that cut costs and latency. Comfortable translating research into production (MIT transport master’s + Berkeley EECS), he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a track record of shipping measurable performance and reliability gains. An attention to developer experience and visualization at scale is a through-line in his work, making complex data approachable for engineers and operators.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree EECS, Bachelor's Degree EECS at University of California, BerkeleyMaster's Degree Transportation, Master's Degree Transportation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (14)
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
sc9
scs9
html9
css9
workflow-automation8
workflow-management7
workflow-engine7
orchestration5
microservices5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/conductor
Sep 2021 - Oct 2022
Conductor is a microservices orchestration engine.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 18 reviews, 94 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Peter's contributions primarily focused on the UI components of the Conductor UI. Their work included bug fixes, UI enhancements and implementing features, specifically related to workflow diagrams and task search functionality. The user also addressed code style issues by running Prettier and ensured the preservation of the stack on the workflow definitions page.
spring-bootconductororchestrationworkflow-enginegrpc
Netflix/conductor-ui
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:49 reviews, 74 commits, 29 PRs in 1 year 2 months
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