Peyton Walters
Member Of Technical Staff at Modal Labs
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPeyton Walters is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems, now a Member of Technical Staff at Modal Labs based in New York. He led the design and implementation of Cockroach Cloud's RBAC and cloud authentication layer and previously contributed multi-region SQL features to CockroachDB. Peyton has strong DevOps and security chops from roles at Penn Labs and Bloomberg, where he drove Kubernetes migrations, SPIFFE/SPIRE, OPA, and storage integrations. He co-founded a lightweight ML tooling project (Catacomb) and co-instructed a university DevOps course, showing a mix of product-building and teaching. Comfortable shipping production systems and test infrastructure, he pairs low-level systems work with developer experience improvements. Colleagues know him for translating complex distributed-systems requirements into pragmatic, auditable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Deep Run High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (186)
kvm10
postgresql10
controller10
python10
python-client10
serverless10
cloud-native10
client-library10
chatgpt10
listings10
linux10
arangodb10
sql10
gpt10
developer-tools10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
pawalt/personal-site
May 2019 - Jan 2025
My personal website
Contributions:3 PRs, 117 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
reactnextjs
ArmaanT/downtown-marketplace
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Marketplace for downtown tickets. NETS 150 Final Project
Contributions:53 commits, 24 PRs, 40 pushes in 15 days
marketplacedotnetdowntownnetsasp-net-core
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