Trent Petersen
Engineering Lead at Nava
Hinckley, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolTrent Petersen is an engineering leader with 13 years of experience building cloud-native, secure, and highly automated web platforms, currently leading engineering at Nava. He blends deep DevOps and infrastructure expertise—CI/CD, Jenkins, Chef, AMI pipelines, and AWS—with hands-on full-stack development in PHP (Zend Certified), JavaScript, Ruby, and Python. Known for rapid prototyping and consolidating fragmented systems, he has driven measurable wins in cost, speed, and resiliency while shepherding security and compliance in high‑security environments. An active open-source contributor, he maintains and improves key Chef cookbooks such as sous-chefs/php, focusing on compatibility and practical integrations. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation, clear documentation, and incident triage across complex production ecosystems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Sauk Valley Community CollegeNorthern Illinois UniversityDixon High School
English
Stackoverflow
411reputation
27kreached
6answers
7questions
Github Skills (17)
cookbook10
chef-client10
php10
chef-solo10
mysql9
jenkins6
passenger6
elasticsearch6
jenkins-plugin6
actionmailer6
capistrano6
phpunit6
centos6
phpmd6
testing5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/php
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Development repository for the php cookbook
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 27 commits, 28 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Trent primarily contributed to the php cookbook, with their changes focused on ensuring compatibility and resolving merge issues. They worked on implementing changes related to mysql, updating dependencies, and modifying existing code to resolve conflicts from pull requests. The user's contributions demonstrate a focus on maintaining and improving the functionality of the php cookbook and integrating changes from other contributors. This includes enhancements to the provider and resource files.
cookbookphpomstrellischef-resource
NewRelic-Python-Plugins/newrelic-python-agent
Jun 2017 - Jun 2021
Multi-Plugin python-based Agent for NewRelic's Platform
Contributions:1 release, 39 commits, 33 PRs in 3 years 11 months
newrelicpythonagent-basedagentpython-plugin
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