Peter Sheats
Cofounder & CTO at ReturnZap
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Sheats is a hands-on technology leader and cofounder with 11+ years of engineering experience and a 15+-year track record of building and scaling SaaS businesses from first line of code to acquisition. He was the first engineer at ClearCare, helping grow the platform to serve 4,000+ home care agencies, and later co-founded Activated Insights, which scaled to a successful exit—experiences that shaped his focus on reliability, data-driven product design, and operational scaling. As CTO he blends product thinking with execution, still writing and reviewing code while leading engineering across product, infrastructure, and data systems. Today he’s building ReturnZap, a Shopify returns platform aimed at improving customer experience and recovering revenue through smarter return workflows. Known for hiring pragmatic teams and creating systems that avoid constant rework, he prefers problems with a clear path from idea to traction to scale. Based in Raleigh, he pairs enterprise-scale systems experience with startup grit and a knack for turning operational complexity into reliable, usable products.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Information Systems at Palm Beach Atlantic University
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Github Skills (135)
baking10
react-components9
django9
browser9
bulk-loader9
material-ui9
react9
delimited9
graph9
static-site9
code-generator8
javascript8
flask8
python8
terraform8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
returnzap/shopify_python_api
Sep 2021 - Dec 2024
ShopifyAPI library allows Python developers to programmatically access the admin section of stores
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years 4 months
pythonadminprogrammaticallystores
sheats/django-shopify-auth
Dec 2019 - Feb 2023
A package for adding Shopify authentication to a Django app. Sporadically maintained.
Contributions:6 pushes in 3 years 2 months
djangoauthenticationdjango-appshopify
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