Danny Peters
Staff Software Engineer at PrizePicks
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolDanny Peters is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and modernizing Rails-based web applications. He’s driven legacy-to-modern migrations, performance tuning (moving heavy queries to Sidekiq), and reliability work across PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and AWS while leading small engineering teams and on-call processes. Comfortable across backend and emerging frontend stacks, he has paired into GraphQL and React while remaining a Rails specialist. Danny’s background includes mentoring, hiring, and onboarding engineers, and he’s delivered practical i18n solutions and scaling efforts that expanded applications across dozens of states. Based in Louisville, KY, he combines deep backend craftsmanship with operational rigor and a pragmatic focus on shipping measurable improvements.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering and Computer Science at University of KentuckyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Saint Xavier High School
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Github Skills (22)
ruby9
macos6
ruby-on-rails6
spectacle6
rvm6
apt-get6
unix6
sublime-text6
ubuntu6
coffeelint5
mouse5
windows4
linux-distribution3
electron3
postgresql2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
danmanstx/pfe
Nov 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:103 commits, 3 PRs, 61 pushes in 10 months
postgresqlpostgres
danmanstx/dannypetersme
Feb 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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