Peter Novotnak
Senior Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Novotnak is a Senior Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience building and operating production web and infrastructure systems. He has progressed from web development and systems engineering roles into SRE/DevOps and now a senior engineering position at Reddit, bringing deep operational experience and pragmatic problem-solving. Comfortable across the stack, Peter combines hands-on troubleshooting with automation and reliability work learned at Cyrus Biotechnology and earlier web-hosting roles. He’s a practical tinkerer—hacking on go-carts, high-altitude balloons, and WiMax—which informs a creative, experimental approach to engineering tradeoffs. Known for optimistic pragmatism, he focuses on delivering reliable, scalable systems while staying curious about hardware and network-level challenges.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Seattle Central College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
scheduling10
k8s10
mesos10
ecosystem10
service-discovery10
api10
vault10
prometheus10
visualization10
kubernetes-monitoring10
observe10
sniffing10
batch-processing10
messaging10
python10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
CyrusBiotechnology/dozy
Dec 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 10 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 4 months
uptimelockfiles
pnovotnak/.files
Apr 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:186 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 10 months
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