Peter Bourgon

Principal Engineer, Distributed Systems

Peter Bourgon, who is currently the Head of Engineering at a stealth crypto startup in Berlin, Germany, has a robust background in distributed systems and infrastructure engineering. Here are some key points about his career and expertise:

Experience

Head of Engineering, Stealth startup: January 2022 - Present. Leads system engineering for a stealth crypto startup.1
Principal Engineer, Fastly: February 2017 - December 2021. Worked on data infrastructure, observability, and research projects related to globally distributed state/data.1
Engineer, Weaveworks: May 2015 - December 2016. Contributed to projects such as Scope (monitoring and control plane for cloud-native applications), Mesh (gossip and CRDT library), and Flux (deployment automation for containerized microservices).1
Engineer, SoundCloud: February 2012 - May 2015. Rebuilt the search product using Go and Elasticsearch, and the activity stream products using Roshi. Also worked on infrastructure, orchestration, service discovery, DNS, and internal tooling.1
Software Developer, IPTEGO: August 2010 - February 2012. Worked on VoIP and protocol analysis software in C and Python.1
Software Developer, Self-employed: August 2009 - August 2010. Developed open-source applications in C++ and Python, and volunteered for NGOs.1
Senior Software Developer, Bloomberg: June 2006 - August 2009. Focused on backend/infrastructure work in C++, primarily related to a legal search engine.1
Co-op Design Engineer, Adtran: January 2003 - May 2005. Developed a TFTP server for enterprise-class routers and implemented SNMP on carrier-class access cards.1

Education

Clemson University: B.S. in Computer Engineering and Mathematics, 2001 - 2006.1

Expertise

Specialized in distributed systems, coordination-free systems, and observability.

Peter Bourgon is well-known for his contributions to distributed systems engineering and has spoken at conferences such as QCon.2 He has also written insightful articles on topics like the MeLT (Metrics, Logging, and Tracing) framework.3