Peter Shin
Senior Software Engineer at Liferay, Inc.
Diamond Bar, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Shin is a Senior Software Engineer with 18 years of hands-on experience, currently building and maintaining core platform infrastructure at Liferay. He specializes in backend build and plugin systems, having contributed to the widely used liferay-portal by improving build reliability, Java 11 compatibility, and dependency management. Based in Diamond Bar, CA, he blends deep ECE foundations from UIUC with long-tenured practical expertise in large Java-based codebases and CI/test integration. Known for tackling subtle build-system issues—like symlink handling and network optimizations—he focuses on making complex developer workflows faster and more robust. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors and tooling changes that reduce friction across large teams and codebases.
18 years of coding experience
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (8)
plugin-development10
dependency-management10
javas10
osgi10
gradlew10
build-automation10
java10
gradle10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
liferay/liferay-portal
Apr 2008 - Mar 2023
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6672 commits, 32 PRs, 1 push in 15 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the Liferay Portal's build and plugin infrastructure. Their work included configuring test integration, modifying service builder tasks to include Java 11 compatibility, and adding dependency substitutions. They also addressed symlink issues and optimized network configurations within the build process. Furthermore, they were involved in refactoring the codebase by removing the deployFast task.
petershin/tomcat
Apr 2021 - Nov 2024
Apache Tomcat
Contributions:710 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 8 months
javaapacheapache-tomcattomcat
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