Peter Downs

Hi, I'm Peter.

I want to do great things with good people.

I live in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA, USA.

It's hard to describe myself but basically I'm just a lucky person doing my best and often failing.

My friends and family are the best part of my life.

I'm always doing something athletic.

Work

I solve problems by writing code and managing people.

Some previous roles: "Senior Software Engineer", "Director of Software Engineering", and "Senior Engineering Manager.

My favorite jobs have all been working with people smarter than me.

I'm currently on a contract with Alpaca.markets, helping build out their Crypto team. We're doing greenfield golang engineering work, with lots of interesting future extensions into marketmaking, exchange design, defi interaction, etc. If you like working on financial products, making things go really fast, and small teams with clear goals, please reach out at peter.downs@alpaca.markets.

In the past I've worked with Hyperink / Locu / GoDaddy / Coinbase / Beme / Instavest / Rough Draft / B12 / Smartly / Hyperstudio / Timber / Stripe / Cnstnt / Flori Ventures / Pipe / Robinhood.

I studied computer science at MIT.

Open Source

I believe in open source from an ideological perspective and from a teleological/realpolitik perspective.

I've spent a lot of time and effort working on open source code. Most of it lives on my Github.

Talk to me

Besides this website, I'm present on Twitter and Tumblr.

It's best to contact me via email.

Always happy to meet a stranger, please reach out any time.