Peter Tripp
Ops Engineer at Zed Industries
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Tripp is an Ops Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating reliable infrastructure for startups and large services, currently at Oxide Computer Company while also developing games for the Playdate console. He has held senior SRE/DevOps roles at DuckDuckGo, ClearMetal, and Chartio, and led open source engineering at Zed Industries, blending deep production ops skills with developer-facing tooling. An active contributor to SaltStack's bootstrap tooling, he has hands-on experience improving installability and packaging across Linux distributions. Comfortable moving between consulting, product teams, and open source, he pairs systems-level troubleshooting with a pragmatic focus on automation and maintainability. Based in Amherst, MA, he brings a mix of long-term operational institutional knowledge and creative side projects that surface unconventional problem-solving approaches.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Economics & CS, Bachelor of Science (BS), Economics & CS at Guilford CollegePostbaccalaureate Studies, Postbaccalaureate Studies at Columbia University
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Github Skills (20)
scripting10
ubuntu10
script10
saltstack10
sh10
shell10
bootstrap9
devops9
assert9
bootstra9
systemd9
command-line6
psycopg6
amazon-web-services6
github6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt-bootstrap
Mar 2015 - May 2016
Generic Salt Bootstrap Script
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on improving the SaltStack bootstrap script. Their contributions involved expanding the supported installation types to include "testing" and refining Ubuntu PPA handling for various stable versions. They also addressed code quality issues, such as trailing whitespace, and updated the systemd service configuration. The user appears to have a good understanding of the SaltStack ecosystem and build process.
bootstrap-scriptsaltgenericbootstrapsaltstack
notpeter/salt
Mar 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:19 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 6 months
management-systeminfrastructure-automationdevopsansibleinfrastructure
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