Peter Olson
Senior Software Engineer at DomainTools
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Olson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 16 years of experience designing and shipping robust systems for both internal teams and external customers. He favors collaborative design conversations to preempt pitfalls and deliver maintainable solutions, blending strong API and backend skills honed at DomainTools and Isilon Systems. His background spans clustered storage, networking tools on FreeBSD, and embedded microcontroller work, reflecting a comfort with both low-level systems and higher-level service design. An active open-source contributor, he improved core functionality in the popular cruft project by modernizing file handling with pathlib and hardening template update and patch workflows. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering with high academic distinction and brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to complex engineering problems. Colleagues know him for turning nuanced requirements into practical, well-documented implementations that scale.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
AST2, Engineering, 3.78, AST2, Engineering, 3.78 at Clark CollegeBS, Computer Engineering, 3.9, BS, Computer Engineering, 3.9 at Washington State University
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Github Skills (15)
cookiecutter10
pathlib10
templating10
python10
git9
api8
boilerplate8
apidoc8
php6
dictionary6
strtotime6
numpy6
testing6
encryption6
cryptography6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cruft/cruft
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
Allows you to maintain all the necessary cruft for packaging and building projects separate from the code you intentionally write. Built on-top of, and fully compatible with, CookieCutter.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on enhancing the core functionality of the `cruft` tool, which aids in managing project cruft, by implementing features related to file access using `pathlib.Path` and improving the template update process. They converted file operations to utilize `pathlib.Path` for cleaner and more modern file handling and added a fallback mechanism for the `patch` command when the `--merge` option is not supported. Additionally, they addressed issues related to the cookiecutter template update process.
pythonboilerplatetemplatingpackagingseparate
Peter200lx/maze-gen-svg
Jun 2010 - May 2014
Contributions:4 commits in 3 years 11 months
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