Peter Nied
Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Nied is a senior software engineer with 12+ years building scalable services, performance tooling, and automation across Amazon, Microsoft, Hulu, and now Airbnb in Austin. He combines deep backend and DevOps expertise—contributing to OpenSearch security and build systems—with strong test automation and Android SDK experience from his earlier work on Kindle and living-room video apps. At AWS he focused on performance engineering for OpenSearch Service and helped open-source the distribution and CI/CD pipelines, demonstrating an emphasis on reproducible, observable builds. Known for pragmatic problem solving, Peter pairs low-level debugging (WinDbg memory analysis) with system design and concurrent Java/C# development to ship reliable systems at scale. He brings a knack for improving developer workflows and security hygiene, evidenced by fixes that tightened SAML role handling and moved logging to standard frameworks in popular open-source projects.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Achievement Skills for Success, Certificate of Achievement Skills for Success at Dale Carnegie TrainingBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Florida Institute of TechnologyLandmark Curriculum for Living Business/Corporate Communications, Landmark Curriculum for Living Business/Corporate Communications at Landmark
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Github Skills (31)
opensearch10
docker10
javascript10
aws-cdk10
saml10
dockers10
cicd10
java10
security10
javas10
build-automation10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
testing9
cloud-infrastructure9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
liveservices/LiveSDK-for-Windows
Jun 2014 - Jul 2015
LiveSDK library for integrating with Live Connect
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:43 commits, 26 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on updating and maintaining the codebase for the LiveSDK library for Windows. Their contributions involved applying updated license headers, removing license stamps from non-Microsoft JavaScript files, and reverting changes. Furthermore, they worked on adding functionality to the ApiExplorer sample application. They also made changes to the codebase of the WP8, WinStore and Web samples, including adding and updating resources.
integratingwebrtcsdk
opensearch-project/security
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
🔐 Secure your cluster with TLS, numerous authentication backends, data masking, audit logging as well as role-based access control on indices, documents, and fields
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1852 reviews, 87 commits, 678 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the security features of the OpenSearch project. They fixed settings related to roles, ensuring proper handling of role separators within the SAML authentication module. Furthermore, they added tests and corrected code hygiene practices, specifically to make sure exception causes aren't sent to callers and added new-line linter to codebase. They also switched the logging mechanism to the standard Log4j logger and added deprecation notices to security tools.
indicesrole-basedloggingrolesecure
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