Woody Peterson
Co-Founder, CTO at InPlay
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolWoody Peterson is a seasoned engineering leader and co-founder with 17 years of experience building and directing technical teams for startups and greenfield projects. As CTO of InPlay he’s resurrected and rebranded a prior marketplace effort to focus on school partnerships and disadvantaged users, blending product empathy with pragmatic engineering. He has a track record of rapidly re-scoping stalled projects (shipping an iOS beta within months while learning Objective-C) and architecting automated testing and deployment pipelines to sustain velocity. His background spans full-stack Rails marketplaces, large-scale CDN coordination, and thoughtful front-end work—such as improving keyboard-driven UX for a Safari Vimium port. Trained in psychology, he pairs user-centric research with domain-driven design to translate stakeholder needs into robust technical solutions. He’s equally comfortable mentoring teams, hiring engineers, and rolling up his sleeves to refactor legacy systems into maintainable, testable platforms.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Psychology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Psychology at University of Washington
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Github Skills (15)
javascript10
safari-extension10
ruby-on-rails9
capybara9
selenium9
forms9
html8
cucumber6
bdd6
vim6
deferred6
jquery6
rubygems6
ruby6
future6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
televator-apps/vimari
Jul 2012 - Feb 2013
Safari port of vimium
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Woody focused on enhancing the Vimari Safari extension, a port of Vimium, by integrating the Mousetrap library for keyboard shortcuts. They refactored the codebase to utilize Mousetrap, updated the extension's settings to accommodate new features, and fixed bugs to restore functionality. The user also implemented new keyboard shortcuts and addressed input behavior and modifier key interactions, improving the user experience.
safarisafari-extensionvimium
woahdae/translator
Aug 2019 - Dec 2024
Rails extensions to simplify internationalization
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 tag in 5 years 4 months
railstranslationinternationalizationrubyextensions
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