👋 Hi, I’m @peterguy

I’ve been a software engineer and general man-about-town in related fields for over two decades. Put that way, I should be better at this stuff than I am. :-)

After spending most of those years bending Java to my will, I’ve moved on to writing mostly in Go, with a growing amount of TypeScript + React (and increasingly, SvelteKit) work thrown in. I still enjoy a good shell script, and Python is my go-to for personal hacking and automation.

These days, I lead teams at Sourcegraph, where I’ve managed the Code Search and Cody AI product groups building tools that make developers (myself included) more effective.

While I've been on macOS and Linux for awhile, I have spent time on the Dark Side: VB, C#, .NET VB, and more batch and PowerShell than I’d like to admit. I’ve wrestled with SOAP and XML (we all have scars), and these days stick mostly to REST and JSON. My web work leans toward API and behavior design, though I can hold my own with front-end layout when needed.

Back in the day, I started out as a systems and network administrator - back when moving from an ISDN to a T1 felt like a big day. I built desktops (RIP Fry’s), managed Windows NT, wrangled PBXs, and later worked with Cisco, Oracle, and a zoo of OSes: Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows. I’ve been using Docker, Kubernetes, and other containerization tools for a while, though I’ll still claim early credit for working with chroot and FreeBSD jails.

Outside of work, I have a big, noisy life: a passel of children, too many pets, some livestock, and a garden that’s always just a bit too ambitious.