Peter Lyons
Staff Engineer at Float Health
Louisville, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Lyons is a staff engineer with 15 years of experience designing and operating backend and DevOps systems for e-commerce and SaaS platforms, currently based in Louisville, Colorado. He has a track record of shipping revenue-critical subsystems—payments, checkout, and webhooks—at companies like Mailchimp and Reaction Commerce, and has deep hands-on experience with Node.js, Go, Cloud Run, Kafka, MongoDB and containerized CI/CD. Peter is comfortable across the full stack, from shaping developer workflows and Docker setups to improving test infrastructure in widely used open-source libraries such as superagent. He also runs immersive project retreats for developers, showing a commitment to community and focused productivity outside traditional engineering roles. Practical, detail-oriented, and entrepreneurial, he combines legacy enterprise experience with modern cloud-native architectures.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music Saxophone, Bachelor of Music Saxophone at Oberlin CollegeComputer Programming, Computer Programming at Recurse Center
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Github Skills (98)
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expressjs10
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Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
focusaurus/express_code_structure
Oct 2013 - Jul 2020
Example of how to organize a medium-size express.js web application
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:69 commits, 20 PRs, 29 pushes in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on structuring and building a basic Express.js web application. Their contributions include setting up the server, defining routes for different entities (users, deals, customers, vehicles, and site pages), and implementing basic CRUD operations. The user also incorporated Jade/Pug for templating and configured some initial middleware. Additionally, they added unit tests.
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reactioncommerce/example-storefront
Sep 2018 - Jul 2020
Example Storefront is Reaction Commerce’s headless ecommerce storefront - Next.js, GraphQL, React. Built using Apollo Client and the commerce-focused React UI components provided in the Storefront Component Library (reactioncommerce/reaction-component-library). It connects with Reaction backend with the GraphQL API.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 43 commits, 42 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Peter focused on improving the development environment and CI/CD pipeline for the example storefront project. They introduced a script to create a Hydra client, updated environment variable configurations, and implemented checks for required environment variables. Additionally, they refactored the Docker setup for local development, optimized CI processes by only running Snyk when needed, and introduced a script to fix volume ownership issues in the Docker environment, all contributing to a streamlined and reliable development workflow.
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