Summary
Peter Marreck is a Director of Engineering with 14 years of hands-on web development experience and two decades of building production systems since 2000. He combines deep expertise in Ruby on Rails and server architecture with a current focus on Elixir/Phoenix and functional languages, positioning himself for scalable, fault-tolerant systems on the BEAM. Proven at startups and scale-ups, he’s led platform integrity, improved test suites, diagnosed elusive bugs, and shaped delivery practices that emphasize TDD and client-facing quality. His background spans infrastructure, security/compliance (Sarbanes-Oxley), and data/backend optimizations, giving him a rare blend of engineering rigor and risk-awareness. A former Air Force systems specialist and Cornell grad, he brings disciplined troubleshooting, mentoring instincts, and an appetite for new languages like Idris and Roc. Outside work he’s curious about Bitcoin, enjoys biking and sailing, and keeps an experimental streak in tooling and language exploration that informs his technical leadership.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Psychology, Computer Science, BA, Psychology, Computer Science at Cornell University