Peter Valdez
Senior DevOps Engineer at Book of the Month
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Valdez is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in New York with 13 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, containerized workloads, and developer-friendly infrastructure. He blends hands-on platform engineering at Book of the Month with entrepreneurial experience as cofounder & CTO of Shipyard, where he led product-grade orchestration and deployment efforts. Comfortable in the terminal and passionate about containers, he brings pragmatic automation, CI/CD, and reliability practices to scaling teams and systems. His background spans startups and larger orgs—from systems administration at Hunter College to engineering at Morgan Stanley—giving him a practical appreciation for both legacy ops and modern cloud patterns. Notably, his career path reflects an operator’s mindset: shipping repeatable infrastructure and developer tooling that reduces cognitive load for teams.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Hunter College
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Github Skills (79)
docker-compose10
compose10
docker10
swarm10
astoria9
k8s9
kubernetes9
operator8
vote8
zeroconf7
mdns7
slack7
node-server7
golang6
client-server6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
astoria-tech/volunteer-dispatch
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
Slackbot to coordinate errand volunteering
Contributions:102 commits, 52 PRs, 93 pushes in 11 months
slackslackbotcoordinatevolunteering
shipyardbuild/flask-app
Jun 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:37 commits, 14 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 9 months
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