Peter Olson
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Olson is a seasoned engineering leader with 13+ years building large-scale, human-centered products at the intersection of AI, data, media, and public service. He has led teams at Amazon driving AI/LLM-powered personalization for Prime Video at massive scale and previously transformed content, API, and knowledge systems for NBC News, Marvel, IDEO and public-sector clients. Peter combines product intuition with technical rigor—launching first-in-industry digital comics and open-API programs, ML-driven storefront features that added hundreds of millions of streaming hours, and resilient civic platforms cited by FEMA. He excels at organizational change: resetting culture, growing cross-functional teams, and improving operational excellence while cutting costs and latency. Based in New York, he applies a design-minded, systems-thinking approach rooted in a BA in neuroscience and arts to turn complex data into compelling stories and practical impact. An early adopter of AI in product contexts, he bridges research, engineering and strategy to launch novel experiences and new market visions.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at Wesleyan University
Stackoverflow
10,621reputation
1.1mreached
104answers
4questions
php
top-5%
mysql
top-5%
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top-1%
Github Skills (50)
erlang10
shiny10
go10
mysql9
lists9
npm9
elixir9
php9
gitlab9
bitbucket8
azure-devops8
dependency-manager8
package-management8
sample-data7
fits7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
noam-io/lemma_erlang
Oct 2014 - Nov 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 4 pushes in 3 years 1 month
dragonfruit-api/dragonfruit
Nov 2014 - Nov 2017
Tool for creating REST APIs from arbitrary sample data.
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years
apisample-dataarbitraryrestrest-api
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