Summary
Sage Peterson is a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 10 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native, serverless, and streaming data systems across industrial IoT and logistics domains. Known for migrating legacy CI/CD and monoliths to modern pipelines and serverless architectures, Sage has implemented AWS CDK IaC, GitHub Actions, and maintained Kafka-based telemetry for connected vehicles at scale. They blend backend expertise in Scala, Java, and Python with front-end experience in Angular and pragmatic data modeling in Oracle and Neo4j, delivering end-to-end solutions that cut costs and improve real-time visibility. Sage also brings hands-on IoT security experience—threat modeling, secure firmware coordination, and encrypted data pipelines—that informs robust product design. Based in Illinois, they pair systems-level thinking with a mentor’s mindset, having coached new engineers and led cross-functional POCs that balanced corporate security and practical deployment. An identity-affirming, genderfluid lesbian, Sage brings diverse perspective to technical leadership and collaborative problem-solving.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's Degree, Business Administration - Computer Information Systems Emphasis, Associate's Degree, Business Administration - Computer Information Systems Emphasis at Illinois Central College
Washington Community High School
Bachelor’s Degree, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor’s Degree, Management Information Systems, General at Bradley University