Peter Marton is a seasoned software leader and founder with 12 years of experience building scalable, low-latency systems for API and cloud platforms. He co-founded and led OpenMeter (YC W23), an open-source, per-second usage metering and billing platform acquired by Kong to accelerate AI monetization and real-time billing at the API layer. Previously he drove platform and database efficiency work at Netflix and Stripe, shipping high-throughput API platforms and production FinOps and metering solutions. Peter combines product thinking with hands-on engineering—his contributions to the Node.js restify project and leadership of the Node.js Diagnostics WG underscore a deep commitment to developer tooling and observability. Based in San Francisco, he’s comfortable operating at the intersection of developer experience, billing, and platform reliability, and has built systems that process billions of events with Apache 2.0-licensed code. A pragmatic product-builder, he’s known for turning complex pricing and metering requirements into developer-friendly, production-ready features.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Contributions:116 commits, 131 PRs, 295 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the core functionality and maintenance of the Node.js REST framework, restify. They improved the example applications by migrating them to the latest restify and fixing issues in existing examples. Their work also focused on improving the underlying code by refactoring and fixing calculation of time durations, adding features to the server object, and including support for http2. Further contributions include the implementation of JSDoc and the integration of auto-generated API documentation.
Contributions:3 releases, 39 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 5 months
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