Peter Stout
Principal Engineer at Google
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Stout is a Principal Engineer based in London with 11+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems and platform infrastructure. He has led cross-functional platform teams at Netflix and now drives architecture at Google, blending deep systems-level expertise in concurrency, fault-tolerance, and bug triage with hands-on engineering. His work spans control-plane infrastructure, real-time streaming transitions, and metrics libraries—he contributed refactors and tests to Netflix’s popular spectator metrics client. A former Spinnaker steering committee member and occasional interim director, he pairs technical leadership with a knack for guiding teams through complex migrations. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon, bringing research rigor to pragmatic production engineering.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Chemistry, B.A. Chemistry at Wesleyan UniversityChemistry, Chemistry at FAU Erlangen-NürnbergPh.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
German
Github Skills (8)
algorithm10
unit-testing10
data-structures10
javas10
algorithms10
data-structure10
java10
api-design8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/spectator
Jun 2015 - Oct 2016
Client library for collecting metrics.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 9 PRs, 20 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the `spectator-api` module, focusing on refactoring and improving the `TagList` class, which appears to be a core data structure for the project. They updated the behavior of the `rollup` method, and also refactored the `TagList` class to be more intuitive. Additionally, the user modified the `DefaultId` class to utilize a registry for creating IDs. The user also added unit tests to verify the correct behavior.
client-librarymeasurementcollectingmetricsjava
pstout/spectator
Jun 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:53 pushes, 18 branches, 7 tags in 1 year 4 months
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