Peter Ryder
Software Engineer II at Amazon Robotics
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Ryder is a Software Engineer II with 11 years of experience building backend and DevOps-focused systems, currently contributing to Amazon Robotics from Greater Boston. He has a strong background in automation and production tooling from roles at Cisco and open-source work on Apache Traffic Control, where he improved installation automation, logging, and dependency management for a widely used CDN project. A Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute computer science graduate, Peter combines practical systems engineering with a knack for incremental refactors that reduce operational toil. His career shows a throughline of shipping reliable infrastructure-level changes—often quietly impactful, like gzip log improvements and auto-configuration—that improve long-running system operability.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Lawrence AcademyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (9)
cdn10
apache10
perl10
logging9
automation9
automations9
build-tools8
build-system8
release-management8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/trafficcontrol
Nov 2016 - Apr 2019
Apache Traffic Control is an Open Source implementation of a Content Delivery Network
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 20 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on backend development tasks, particularly within the context of the Apache Traffic Control CDN. Their contributions include fixing dependencies, improving logging, and refactoring code within the installation and profile management utilities. They also worked on automating post-installation processes by introducing features like auto-configuration. Furthermore, the user made several minor improvements such as gzip logs and comments.
apachecontent-deliverycontent-delivery-networktraffictrafficcontrol
PeterRyder/Check-Up
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:6 releases, 4 PRs, 96 pushes in 3 months
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