Peter Piekarczyk
Founding Engineer at Draftbit
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Piekarczyk is a founding engineer and serial builder in Chicago with 11 years of experience turning ambitious product ideas into shipping software, currently building Backpack — a combined wallet and exchange. He co-founded Draftbit, helped popularize visual mobile app building in the browser, and has led engineering and product efforts at startups and consumer platforms, blending hands-on coding with architectural leadership. Peter is an active contributor and speaker in the React, GraphQL, and ReasonML ecosystems, having influenced projects like Apollo, Expo, Emotion, and React Native through code, talks, and tooling. He brings a builder’s mindset formed since age 12—equally comfortable splitting monoliths into Node.js services or prototyping novel developer tools—and thrives at the intersection of developer experience and product-driven engineering.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
W18, W18 at Y CombinatorUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Polish, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
ui-components10
testing10
vim10
cryptocurrency10
reason10
component-library10
svg10
keystonejs10
google-maps10
rescript10
nvim10
pinch10
browser10
api10
iterm10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
peterpme/peterpme.github.io
May 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:85 commits, 5 PRs, 113 pushes in 2 years 10 months
peterpme/react-native
Feb 2016 - Jan 2023
A framework for building native apps with React.
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
react-nativenative-appsreactredux
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