Peter Potrebic
Pythonista at Box
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Potrebic is a seasoned Python engineer and systems architect with 13+ years building consumer-quality frontends and large-scale backend platforms, currently tackling critical projects at Box in San Francisco. He has deep experience designing resilient, cache-aware architectures and APIs—having led SOAP-to-GET and unified caching efforts at Coupons Inc and shipping high-throughput DVR scheduling and TV UX systems at Microsoft. A pragmatic advocate for zero-defect code and developer-friendly practices, he blends hands-on implementation with technical leadership to improve maintainability and observability. Peter contributes to open-source tooling such as the box-python-sdk, improving paging, collaboration parameters, and documentation to make SDKs more robust. His background spans startups and big tech, grounded in CS degrees from Princeton and Stanford, and he favors elegant, production-first solutions that anticipate operational scale. An understated detail: he’s as comfortable optimizing low-level DVR scheduler logic as he is modernizing web APIs for millions of daily events.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Stanford UniversityBachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science at Princeton University
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Github Skills (15)
api10
box-api10
python10
apidoc10
develop9
unit-testing8
documentation7
pep6
datetime6
windows6
popen6
shell6
linux6
bash6
timestamp6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
box/box-python-sdk
Feb 2015 - Dec 2018
Box SDK for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 14 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on improving the Box SDK for Python, enhancing its functionality and robustness. They added comprehensive docstrings to improve code clarity and maintainability. The user also improved the paging API and incorporated support for the `can_view_path` parameter for folder collaborations. They also addressed bugs and made formatting improvements.
box-sdkpython
box/genty
Mar 2014 - Nov 2015
Genty, pronounced "gen-tee", stands for "generate tests". It promotes generative testing, where a single test can execute over a variety of input.
Contributions:1 release, 57 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 7 months
generative-testing
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