david peters
Still building,
never idle.
Engineer, data platform. Recovering founder. Chattahoochee angler.
timeline game github linkedin resume
Born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. Graduated from UWM (Go Panthers). Big Milwaukee Brewers, Bucks, and Green Bay Packers fan.
Spent about 10 years in LA (2 of them split with the Bay Area), a few years in Nashville, 1 year as a digital nomad, and finally landed in Atlanta, GA.
I like watching sports: NFL (Go Pack Go), NCAAF (Go Dawgs), NHL (Go Preds), and tennis (I wish I found the time to play). I'm also an aspiring amateur darter.
When I'm not in front of my laptop, I'm working out with kettlebells, landscaping the yard, cycling around, fishing the hooch, and spending time with my beautiful wife Christina, our two doges Governor and Lieutenant, and our cat Augustus.
the plain timeline
Every position, latest first, with one receipt each. The game below is a theatrical way to read this same list.
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Data platform engineer to senior staff, Doximity
Built the internal data platform tooling, serving 90+ data engineers across 10+ product teams. Airflow orchestration, Snowflake managed with Terraform and PrivateLink, a semantic layer, and MCP servers exposing the platform to Claude under SOC2 and HIPAA.
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Co-founder and founding CTO, TutorUp (founded as TeacherFindr)
Built, managed, and scaled the marketplace as founding CTO. All cash founder share buyback in May 2021.
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Software engineer and manager, iCitizen
Managed 16 engineers. Learned what management costs and what it teaches. Then left to build my own idea instead of scaling someone else's.
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Software engineer, platform, ChowNow
Left at month 8. Wrong fit, recognized early, exited cheap.
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Co-founder, Keenoh
First founder attempt, run in parallel with the Media Temple day job. A real estate search app aggregating directly from MLS and operating as a brokerage, a little like Redfin today. It failed before launch.
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Senior software engineer, Media Temple
Production Linux at a hosting company, where other people's uptime is your problem. The ops foundation everything downstream runs on. Acquired by GoDaddy during this run.
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Senior software engineer and manager, BLITZ
First management role. Built for FX Networks, Blizzard Entertainment, and THQ.
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Senior software developer, HUGE Inc
Built for large clients: Fox Networks, Royal Caribbean, Alvin Ailey Dance Company, and Target.
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Software developer, Culture Jam
Second engineering hire at what became PromoJam. Built promo campaigns for music artists like Rihanna and Everclear.
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Freelance developer
Hustling to grow my network on small clients, but mostly consulting for MyLife, which was trying to aggregate social and email messages into one interface.
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Technical consultant, Scene Unseen
Friend and technical consultant to Chris and Jimmy, who built one of the earliest and fairly popular movie podcasts of the time.
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Lead UI developer and consultant, Belay Development
A brochure and estore factory before Shopify existed. Built sites on Drupal, WordPress, and a custom asp.net framework.
tools earned
- javascript
- php
- python
- ruby
- sql
- mysql
- perl
- linux
- bash
- postgres
- redis
- mongodb
- aws
- cloud
- sqlite
- ansible
- iac
- ci
- gcp
- api development
- micro services
- terraform
- k8s
- argocd
- prometheus
- grafana
- go
- airflow
- dbt
- snowflake
- ai
- mcp
- k3s
- dagster
- duckdb
- motherduck
- cloudflare workers
I build the platforms other engineers build on. Most of that work looks like a pipeline: many small tasks, wired into an order, run until every task comes back clean.
So this site is one. The timeline above is the plain version. The game below is the same story, wired up: tap the nodes into a valid order and run it, and each task reveals a milestone.
