Peter Braden

Summary

Generalist software engineer with multiple decades of experience including product and management and a proven track record of autonomy and leadership.

Excellent communicator, both written and in person, with public speaking experience.

Relevant Experience

Pachama

Staff Software Engineer. 2022 — 2024

Working to restore nature and sequester carbon by building tooling and analysis capabilities to support a carbon credit development pipeline.

Automating geospatial and policy analyses to enable instant project evaluations.
Leading a multi-quarter effort to migrate a large python server to a new architecture, which was delivered to schedule.
Advising and collaborating on the design of that new architecture, to simplify an event driven (Kafka) data pipeline
Working cross-functionally to solve stakeholder problems across multiple domains.

HOPR

Staff Software Engineer. 2020 — 2021

Architecting and orchestrating the development of a decentralized privacy protocol using blockchain to incentive mixnode participation.

Smart contract development with Solidity
P2P protocol development with Typescript, LibP2P

Teralytics

Improving urban mobility, and infrastructure development with anonymized aggregate location data.

Product Manager. 2019 — 2020

Establishing product / market fit for a new offering.

Research into user need with in-depth customer interviews.
Coordination of design and development agencies to quickly iterate on prototypes.
Ideation and iteration from ground level to testable prototypes.

Manager, Frontend Engineering. 2018 — 2019

Managing and leading engineering on the data visualisation applications of mobility data - the company’s core product.

Management of a small team.
Guiding strategic direction of the teams goals in the context of company needs.

Move Digital

Head of Web on Move Wealth division. 2016 — 2018

Leading development of the front-end of a wealth management platform.

Leading an effort to upgrade a legacy codebase to a new React based system.
Interfacing with our design agency and project requirements to develop an intuitive interface.
Managing internal discussion on pragmatic uses of new technology.

FrozenRidge

Founder 2013 — 2016

Founder of FrozenRidge, a full-stack web consultancy that specialized in solving hard problems for businesses. FrozenRidge offered training, expertise in Node.js, Databases, and Continuous Integration.

Performed Node.js training for a Fortune 500 Company
Orchestrated technical partnerships to promote growth
Ensured all contracts were completed on-time & on-budget with accurate project estimates for consulting work

Yammer

Senior Front-End Developer 2011 — 2012

As a senior member of the Front-End team, I led the team that created the Chat feature and was instrumental in building a responsive user experience, helping grow Yammer to a successful $1.2B sale to Microsoft.

Open Source & Projects

Created the widely used (~4k github stars) node-opencv bindings, allowing complex computer vision algorithms to be available in node.js (C++, and javascript)
Genetic Lisa — Fast genetic image evolution in Rust
Maps.fitness — Real-time heat-map generation and visualisation of Strava activities
Creator of over 25 npm modules and collaborator on many more
Wrote ical.js to parse icalendar files from js
Presented at developer conferences including NodePDX and Open Source Bridge.