Peter Piela
Chief Technology Officer at Contruent
Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Piela is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over a decade of experience architecting and delivering cloud-native, AI-enabled SaaS platforms for document-centric and high-performance computing domains. He has repeatedly led cross-functional engineering teams to turn complex requirements into award-winning products, from mortgage automation using deep vision and NLP to unified system management for supercomputers. Comfortable at the intersection of strategy and hands-on engineering, he drives microservices, containerized deployments, and data-driven automation while aligning technical roadmaps with customer value. His background includes building scalable storage and monitoring systems, contributing to OpenStack projects, and shipping production-grade DevOps and analytics stacks. Based in Lexington, MA, he blends a Ph.D. rigor with pragmatic product execution and a knack for translating academic insight into commercial software. A lesser-known thread through his career is a long-standing focus on observability and operational tooling that enables customers to run complex systems with confidence.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Chemical Engineering, B.Sc. Chemical Engineering at Imperial College of Science and TechnologyPh.D. Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (75)
twisted9
api8
on-the-fly8
async8
nginx8
json-form8
remote-management7
serverless7
kong7
micro-framework7
python7
artificial-intelligence7
gateway7
docker7
api-gateway7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pcpiela/collectl-lustre
Sep 2015 - Oct 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes in 6 years 1 month
lustrecollectordata-collector
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