Peter Whelan
Director, Cloud Engineer at Prudential Financial
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Whelan is a Director-level cloud engineer and infrastructure specialist with 20+ years of hands-on experience solving elusive problems where closely coupled systems interact, from VoWLAN and RFID to enterprise telephony and networking. He combines deep troubleshooting roots with pragmatic software development, using Python and open-source tooling to automate audits, ETL, dashboards, and self-service workflows that modernize legacy on-premise infrastructure. At Prudential and prior consulting roles he led cross-functional teams through consolidation and pandemic-driven remote transformations while keeping operations productive and observability gaps closed via custom integrations (SNMP pollers, PBX protocol reverse engineering, ServiceNOW/Ansible/Apigee orchestration). He repeatedly turns manual, error-prone processes into API-driven, auditable automation—reducing tasks from days to minutes—and prefers “live off the land” solutions that leverage existing enterprise platforms. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and manager, he focuses on empowering infrastructure teams to deliver new value through collaboration and tooling. Based in the New York City area, he pairs a practical, security-minded approach with an appetite for reverse engineering and creative glue code to unlock legacy systems.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA Political Science, BA Political Science at Christendom CollegeProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
xwhelan/xwhelan.github.io
Feb 2022 - May 2023
Peter Whelan (lab notebook)
Contributions:6 PRs, 30 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
notebooklablab-notebook
xwhelan/pincushion
Dec 2021 - Apr 2023
A collection of programming spikes with broader applicability
Contributions:4 PRs, 15 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 3 months
spikesapplicability
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