Peter Shaw
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Shaw is a Principal Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building scalable, fault-tolerant backend systems at Microsoft and earlier-stage engineering roles at Yammer and oneDrum. He specializes in microservices architecture and reliable distributed systems, and has driven org-wide best practices for Java and technical documentation to help engineers onboard faster. A natural teacher and mentor, he focuses on building trust and respect on teams so that engineering work “just works” in production. He balances hands-on design and coding with cross-team collaboration to solve complex, business-driven problems across the software lifecycle. Though primarily an enterprise engineer, he brings a startup mindset from his early roles and a consistent interest in making systems predictable and maintainable.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusGithub contributions (2)
shaw256/BasesLoaded
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:88 commits in 1 month
shaw256/ImprovProfiles
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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