Summary
Peter Shugar is a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building data-rich web applications and leading small engineering teams across startups and enterprise settings. He has led design and delivery at Cisco Meraki and Zignal Labs, architecting scalable telemetry and media-analytics pipelines that handle large volumes of customer data and power complex visualizations. Comfortable partnering with product, hardware, and UX, he blends hands-on coding with planning, estimation, and cross-functional coordination to drive projects from conception to production. Based in Los Gatos, CA, he brings startup agility alongside enterprise rigor, having moved from building dashboards and ad-targeting tools to designing secure, queryable telemetry stores. Unusually for an engineer, his academic background is in Classics, reflecting a curiosity for deep patterns and rigorous reasoning that he applies to software architecture and data modeling.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (MA) Classics and Classical Languages Literatures and Linguistics, Master of Arts (MA) Classics and Classical Languages Literatures and Linguistics at San Francisco State University
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Classics and Classical Languages Literatures and Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Classics and Classical Languages Literatures and Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara