Peter Reid
Assistant Professor at Johnson & Wales University
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Reid is an experienced IT leader and educator with 14+ years in senior infrastructure and DevOps roles and a long career managing enterprise Windows and Linux environments for insurance and higher-education institutions. As Assistant Professor and former Director of IT Infrastructure, he blends hands-on skills—Ansible, Docker, VMware, Azure, Cisco—with curriculum development and student mentorship across undergraduate and graduate computer science and cybersecurity programs. He has driven cultural and technical change initiatives including leadership development, peer recognition, IaC adoption, and cloud IaaS proofs of concept, and has led teams through mergers, large-scale migrations, and operational standardization. Known for pragmatic automation that reduced delivery time and downtime, he pairs academic rigor (PhD studies in Information Technology/Cyber Engineering) with decades of production systems experience grounded in early Navy technical service.
15 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
HS, HS at Dennis-Yarmouth RegionalDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology/Cyber Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology/Cyber Engineering at University of the CumberlandsBachelor's Degree, Physics / Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Physics / Computer Science at Worcester State CollegeMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management at Bryant University
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Github Skills (69)
browser10
rust10
sqlite10
git-mirror10
javascript9
obsolete9
compiler9
servo9
security9
cpp9
cryptography9
webbrowser9
webengine9
mercurial9
stream-cipher9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
PeterReid/chacha
Mar 2016 - Jan 2019
Rust implementation of the ChaCha family of stream ciphers
Contributions:35 commits, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 11 months
ruststream-cipher
PeterReid/tagpro-map-editor
Jan 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:83 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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