Winfield Peterson

Experience

Tech Lead 2019 - Present (almost 6 years)

BookBub is a marketplace for ebooks, but I'm working on Chirp Books - our new audiobook retailer. I lead the core team building and scaling the Chirp web platform and APIs.... more

ezCater

Principal Software Engineer 2016 - 2019 (about 3 years)

ezCater is a nationwide marketplace for business catering. I was a manager and engineer building code, tests, systems, and teams. I built web apps/services with Ruby/Rails... more

Google

Software Engineer 2014 - 2016 (about 2 years)

Polar (Input Factory, Inc) was acquired by Google and joined Google+:

• Lead Engineer for G+ Photos, serving tens of millions of photos a day
• Engineer behind G+... more

Polar Polls

Principal Software Engineer 2013 - 2014 (almost 2 years)

Polar was a fast and fun way to engage web audiences with photo polls, capturing 100M+ votes within 80M polls. I built web apps and services as the first engineer. Polar was... more

Brightcove

Principal Software Engineer 2012 - 2013 (11 months)

I worked on Brightcove's App Cloud, a service for building media centric hybrid (JavaScript/native) mobile apps supported by cloud services. I worked on the app cloud web... more

PatientsLikeMe

Lead Engineer 2010 - 2012 (about 2 years)

I worked as Lead Engineer to help scale a single team of 12 people to multiple teams, as we evolved the web application/health platform.

Employee

PatientsLikeMe, Brightcove, Google, ezCater, Polar Polls, BookBub

Education

Winfield Peterson

Full-stack engineer and tech lead. "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."

Full-stack engineer and tech lead.

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."