Peter Zich
Software Engineer at Startup
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Zich is a software engineer with 14 years of experience blending front-end engineering, creative technology, and industrial design to ship polished, user-focused products. Based in Menlo Park, he spent nearly a decade at Facebook as a Front End Engineer and Creative Technologist working on prototyping and hardware-oriented projects in Building 8, and now contributes to a startup, applying both rapid prototyping and production-grade development. His background in 3D modeling, physics-based rendering (Maya, Inventor, Fusion 360) and pixel-perfect graphics (Photoshop, Illustrator) complements hands-on programming in C, Objective-C and web stacks, enabling him to bridge visual design and implementation. Trained as an industrial designer at UIUC, he brings a designer’s eye to engineering problems—often surfacing practical, tactile solutions that aren’t obvious in typical software-only workflows.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Industrial Design, BFA, Industrial Design at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Stackoverflow
512reputation
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15answers
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Github Skills (125)
python10
automation10
esp3210
home-assistant10
hdmi-cec10
mqtt10
yaml10
home-automation10
platformio10
reducer10
cross-platform10
iot10
android10
adapter10
mobile10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pzich/esphome
Apr 2024 - Feb 2025
ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.
Contributions:19 pushes, 13 branches in 9 months
pzich/ffmpeg-ascii
Apr 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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