Summary
Thomas Peters is a pragmatic technical leader and founder with nine years of experience building and scaling product-led engineering teams and consumer-facing platforms. With a CS degree from USC, he has shipped a Discord-based crypto tip bot supporting 10,000+ DAU and scaled a personalized gift-box business to $100K+ annual revenue through product design, inventory systems, and SOP-driven operations. He blends hands-on engineering (Java, MongoDB, full SDLC/CI-CD) with product and growth instincts—evident in growing a TikTok to 100K+ followers while maintaining 99.9% uptime for production services. Now working as an AI evaluator, he applies practical project management and model-training insight to improve ML systems for a top AI lab, bringing a founder’s bias for shipping and measurable outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Southern California
Chadwick School