Peter Travers
Software Engineer at Linear
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Travers is a versatile software engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed systems, authentication platforms, and data pipelines across startups and large enterprises. He’s delivered measurable impact—from improving authentication throughput by ~60% at Beyond Identity to helping make MongoDB serverless—and currently works at Linear in New York. Comfortable across languages and stacks, he has led teams, owned greenfield projects (including adapting Spark for secure multi-party computation), and contributed to open-source concurrency tooling by improving documentation and tests for the well-regarded left-right crate. Not actively looking for work, he balances deep systems-level expertise with clear technical communication and a knack for turning complex protocols into production-quality services.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Aberdeen
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Github Skills (5)
lock-free10
rust10
multithreading10
concurrency10
documentation9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jonhoo/left-right
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
A lock-free, read-optimized, concurrency primitive.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 29 days
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on refining the documentation and examples related to the `ReadHandle` component within the `left-right` library. Their commits involved adding explanations for `Sync` and `Send` implementations to improve developer understanding. They also modified the code to include compile-fail tests to further clarify how the components should be used. The user addressed formatting and emphasis to enhance readability of documentation.
multithreadinglockconcurrencyrustprimitive
Comcast/money
Apr 2018 - Jun 2021
Dapper Style Distributed Tracing Instrumentation Libraries
Contributions:83 reviews, 127 commits, 38 PRs in 3 years 3 months
opentelemetryinstrumentationinstrumentation-librariestracingspan
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