Peter Whitesell
Staff Software Engineer at BalkanID
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Whitesell is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native, full-stack systems from MVP to production, currently focused on Kubernetes-driven microservice platforms. He is fluent in Go and JavaScript, has built GraphQL and REST APIs, background processors, and React frontends, and routinely automates CI/CD and deployment workflows with ArgoCD, ArgoWorkflows, and Helm. Peter has a track record of engineering pragmatic platform features—operators, controllers, and local in-cluster developer tooling—that reduce toil and make deployments reproducible and debuggable. He thrives on abstract reasoning informed by an arts background, which shows up in thoughtful developer UX like single-command local cluster bootstraps and simple CLIs for branch-level workflows. Comfortable both leading platform design and shipping product features, he combines hands-on coding with mentoring and documentation to help small teams move fast. Based in Austin, he brings a creative, systems-oriented approach to solving operational and integration challenges.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Ceramics Sculpture & 3D Design, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Ceramics Sculpture & 3D Design at Bard College at Simon's Rock
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Github Skills (91)
firmware10
security10
microservices10
keyboard10
open-hardware10
proxies10
kubernetes10
nrf5284010
samd5110
service-mesh9
continuous-delivery9
pipeline9
golang9
fault-injection9
displays9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
peterwhitesell/workspace
Dec 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 2 years 11 months
peterwhitesell/keyboard-modules
May 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:88 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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