Peter Downs

Hi, I'm Peter.

I want to do great things with good people.

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

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

I'm always doing something athletic and I'm always reading a book.

Work

I solve problems by leading people and writing code.

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'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.