Peter Woo
Engineering Team Lead at Electronic Frontier Foundation
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Woo is an engineering team lead with 12 years of experience building and shipping software, currently leading engineering at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in Palo Alto. He progressed from senior engineer to team lead at EFF after earlier roles as a Rails consultant and embedded design engineer, giving him a rare blend of web application and low-level systems experience. Peter pairs practical leadership with hands-on development, mentoring teams to deliver secure, privacy-focused products. He holds a BA in Mathematics from UC Santa Cruz and is pursuing an MS in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Johns Hopkins, reflecting strong analytical grounding alongside applied engineering. Notably, his career trajectory shows a consistent focus on mission-driven tech and cross-domain problem solving rather than purely commercial projects.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Master of Science - MS, Applied and Computational Mathematics at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of EngineeringUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (102)
ruby10
certbot10
javascript10
mod-manager10
filemaker10
yardoc10
rdoc10
music10
mp310
endpoint-security10
yard10
documentation-generator10
qbcore-framework10
management9
html9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
EFForg/action-center-platform
Sep 2016 - Apr 2022
The EFF Action Center Platform
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 715 commits in 5 years 8 months
effcenter
EFForg/congress_forms_api
Sep 2018 - Feb 2022
Contributions:81 commits, 1 PR, 29 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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