Peter Woodworth
Software Engineer at AWS
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolPeter Woodworth is a software engineer with seven years of experience specializing in cloud infrastructure, open source, and developer tooling at Amazon's Open Source Program Office. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he contributes to high-impact projects like the AWS CDK—fixing cross-service bugs, improving deployment handlers, and removing hardcoded regions to make infrastructure-as-code more reliable. He brings full-stack chops demonstrated in workshop and sample repos, adding backend API integrations, tests, and CDK features using Go and Node.js. Beyond bug fixes, he focuses on usability and stability improvements that help thousands of users adopt cloud-native practices, and he pairs hands-on engineering with a knack for making complex AWS patterns accessible.
7 years of coding experience
Santa Clara University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
aws-cdk10
aws-lambda10
cloud-infrastructure10
go10
infrastructure-as-code10
typescript9
typescript-types9
dynamodb9
amazon-dynamodb9
nodejs9
typescripts9
python8
amazon-ec28
aws-api-gateway-v28
aws-apigateway8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/aws-cdk-intro-workshop
Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
Introduction to the AWS CDK - Workshop
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:82 reviews, 54 commits, 50 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on adding and updating workshop code for an AWS CDK intro workshop, specifically demonstrating experience with Go, Node.js, and the AWS CDK framework. They added core backend functionality, including API integration, and testing components. Additionally, they enabled termination protection within the CDK application and updated project dependencies.
aws-cdk
aws/aws-cdk
May 2021 - Dec 2022
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:169 reviews, 88 commits, 104 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) framework by addressing bug fixes and making enhancements across multiple AWS services. They removed hardcoded regions in a Python sample app, fixed errors related to AWS Kinesis Analytics Flink applications and AWS AppSync, and corrected volume name settings for AWS EC2 instances. Furthermore, the user updated the bucket deployment handler by updating python version. These contributions showcase a focus on improving the framework's usability, stability, and functionality across various AWS services.
awscloud-development-kitcloud-infrastructureinfrastructure-as-codetypescript
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