Peter Ryszkiewicz
Senior Software Engineer at Venmo
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Ryszkiewicz is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building consumer-facing iOS apps and full-stack systems, currently contributing to the Venmo iOS app from Chicago. He has shipped products at scale for Google and Meta on payments and core news feed experiences, and founded startups focused on crypto services and experimental hardware/software integrations. Technically versatile, Peter works across Rust, Swift, React/TypeScript, C, and embedded platforms, and has published contributions to widely used open-source projects like CocoaPods improving Swift integration and test coverage. He also built a browser-based Bitcoin mining full-stack prototype and a Rust-based Fibonacci compression library, reflecting a penchant for systems-level problem solving and unconventional projects. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who combines product-focused shipping with deep curiosity in crypto, gaming, and low-level systems.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology
Github Skills (6)
swift10
ios10
cocoapods10
package-manager9
unit-testing9
objective-c8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
CocoaPods/CocoaPods
May 2016 - May 2016
The Cocoa Dependency Manager.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Peter focused on improving the CocoaPods project's Swift integration. They modified configuration files to inhibit warnings for Swift targets, making the build process cleaner. The user refactored code for syntax consistency and simplified logic around warning flag implementation. Furthermore, the user added unit tests to validate the changes.
cocoapodsobjective-cpackage-managermacdependency-manager
pRizz/Chatangle-Backend
Oct 2017 - Aug 2018
The backend for Chatangle; a free, decentralized, global chatroom, powered by the IOTA tangle.
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 10 months
tangledjangochatdecentralizedbackend
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