Gage K. Peterson

Expert In

Elixir, JavaScript, React & React Native, Ruby, Postgres & Event Sourcing, GraphQL

Job Experience

Podium - Full-Stack Software Developer

August 2016-now (4 years)

🚀 Helped Podium scale from 1 monolith to over 100 microservices and from 50 to +700 employees in 4 years.
💬 Prototyped and Built the Backend & Front-end of Podium's Webchat product earning +$1,000,000 within the first year.
⚡ Created a decoupled, real-time Kafka stream for publishing Salesforce data to all microservices that wanted to listen.
🤗 mentored 5+ new engineers on my various teams at Podium helping them learn Elixir and even advanced concepts like Event Sourcing.
🎤 Represented Podium Internationally Speaking at:
- 🇺🇸 Open West - Salt Lake City
- 🇦🇹 Reason Conf 2019 - Vienna Austria

Instructure - Software Engineering Intern

May-September 2015

🚐 Eased coordinating the drivers & riders of the vanpool by creating an Elixir web application.
🎤 Gave two presentations on how to do better test driven development (TDD) with functional programming.

Kyäni - Software Engineering Intern

September-October 2013

🎓 Learned JavaScript and rewrote an existing file management system as a Single Page App (SPA) with i18n support.
📣 Authored a JavaScript library for creating and listening to event trees. Mostly used to reduce DOM manipulations.
🤝 Gathered requirements and performed usability tests.

Butterfly Oils - Software Developer

June-October 2013

🛒 Single-handedly Built a e-commerce website from scratch
💵 Implemented PayPal OAuth flow

Education

Brigham Young University–Idaho

Bachelor of Science – Computer Science 3.4 GPA

Graduating: July 2016

ACM Vice-Chair - Winter 2015 Semester

Sample Projects

🌴 Topical - An async communication app testing the bounderies of server rendered mobile apps. Written in Elixir's Phoenix framework and Kotlin (mobile app).

📦 TextBoxes - A modular rich content editing system using JavaScript and React

🤺 Jarl - A game made in pure JavaScript and CSS3 transitions for the js13KGames competition. It uses prototypal inheritance heavily

📓 Mini-Journal - command-line based journaling program that allows you to easily catch up any missed days, written in OCaml