Peter Schwarz
Owner at Functrino LLC
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Schwarz is an experienced software engineer and founder with over two decades of hands-on experience building systems across embedded devices, GIS, NLP, mobile, and distributed ledger technologies. Based in Minneapolis, he has led engineering teams and founded companies—most recently running Functrino after six years as Director of Software Engineering at Bitwise IO—combining product-focused leadership with deep implementation skills. He’s contributed to Hyperledger Sawtooth core as a back-end developer, implementing validator node clients and improving state management in a prominent distributed ledger project. Known for shipping efficient algorithms and pragmatic system designs, he bridges low-level C/embedded work through full-stack web and cloud services, often optimizing critical performance bottlenecks. His BS in Mathematics underpins a methodical approach to problem solving and system architecture.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematics, BS Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (12)
state-management10
transaction10
transactional10
rest-api10
python10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
blockchain10
architecture9
concurrency9
architectures9
go9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hyperledger-archives/sawtooth-core
May 2016 - Apr 2022
Core repository for Sawtooth Distributed Ledger
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:66 reviews, 991 commits, 568 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Peter's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the functionality of the Sawtooth Core repository. They implemented a node client for the validator, including specifications and handling of various transaction processes and responses. Furthermore, they addressed issues related to state management and data retrieval, and fixed existing code. The user demonstrated familiarity with the core aspects of the system and actively worked towards improving its efficiency and robustness.
hyperledgerdltsawtoothdistributed-ledgerledger
peterschwarz/clj-serial
Jan 2014 - Aug 2018
Simple Serial Access for Clojure
Contributions:2 releases, 53 commits, 5 PRs in 4 years 7 months
clojureserial-portsserial
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