Peter Fein

pete@systemadevelopment.com !! systemadevelopment.com

I excel at using computers to solve real-world problems. I bridge the divide between technical experts and

everyday users. I facilitate communication and help ideas become manifset. I:

Program Python

Python guru (11 years): hacking & optimization, testing, debugging, runtime analysis,

metaprogramming

deep understanding of HTTP and RESTful architecture: Apache, Ngnix, uWSGI

storage technologies: SQL, ORMs, NoSQL, MongoDB, Reddis

web frameworks & parts: Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Celery, RabbitMQ

Use Computers

experienced in systems architecture, debugging & analysis

clear code organization, problem research and speciﬁcation

distributed computing: big data, concurrency, network programming, cloud & cluster, Hadoop

machine learning and full text search, including Solr / Lucene, Elastic Search

familiar with UNIX / Linux internals, basic cryptography

some HTML & CSS, CoffeeScript & JavaScript

Write Code

All projects are open source software and written in Python unless otherwise noted.

Twiggy: a Pythonic logger

PlayerPiano: give better presentations using an interactive shell

Factory: object-oriented approach to partial function application (currying)

PetaPass: a stateless password generator

GoldenFleece: Python object serialization to JSON

MirrorParty: censorship circumvention mirror network in pure JavaScript

Work Hard

Principal Developer Systema Development November 2010-present

Freelance and contract software developer focusing on Python, Django, full text search, big data and

NoSQL. Developed and maintained small business websites in Django; helped startups build

prototypes; assisted in upgrade of legacy Python/SQL accounting system; mentored students, etc..

Internet Activist Telecomix January 2011-present

Working with a global team of volunteer collaborators, I’ve been ﬁghting censorship and keeping the

Internet online in Egypt, Iran, Syria and the rest of the Middle East and elsewhere.

Tech Support for the Arab Spring The Guardian (UK)

Hacktivism’s Global Reach Democracy Now!

Syria Using American Software to Censor Internet Washington Post

U.S. Firm Acknowledges Syria Uses Its Gear to Block Web The Wall Street Journal

Free as in People Air Mozilla

Anonymous ‘hacktivist’ goes public on cyber protests BBC

developed MirrorParty, a censorship circumvention social mirroring network

Sabbatical November 2009-November 2010

After ﬁve years of the startup lifestyle, I broke up amicably with Juju.com. I've took time to bike,

learn to cook, practice yoga, travel, hack on open source software and enjoy life.

CTO Juju.com 2004-2009, telecommute

built job search engine from prototype to >1 million unique users/month

managed a team of 7 in a virtual ofﬁce environment, using best practice startup techniques

oversaw several redesigns and major functionality additions

made most major architectural decisions, wrote & maintained a large portion of code

codebase >100K lines, almost entirely in Python

helped clarify and develop business goals & strategy, designed & implemented technical

solutions

Analyst/Junior Trader Tradelink 2002-2004, Chicago

combined knowledge of ﬁnance & markets with programming skills

developed real-time interest rate modeling software in Python, supporting a variety of

instruments including cash bonds, swaps and futures.

used model to price and trade listed derivatives - interest rate futures, swaps & bonds

helped develop automated day trading platform in C++

Clerk Proprietary Trading Firms 2001-2002, Chicago

ﬂoor arb clerk: Chicago Mercantile Exchange / Chicago Board of Options Exchange

S&P 500 Options, Eurodollar Options, Dairy Futures & Options

built ﬁnancial models (Excel) - interest rate, options, other derivatives

reconciled statements & trades, generated risk and hedging reports

got yelled at by traders, yelled back

Junior Trader/Clerk DRW Trading 1999, 2000-2001, Chicago

ﬂoor arb clerk for largest market maker in Eurodollar options

junior trader on arbitrage desk

developed strategies, built pricing/hedging models, executed trades

broad purview: risk arbitrage (mergers), ﬁxed income, index futures spreads, structural arbitrage,

special situations, exotics

Talks

I’ve been a frequent speaker and invited panelist at conferences, user groups and universities.

Python: Pycon 2008 - 2011, Open Source Bridge 2011 (keynote), SciPy Conference 2011, Chicago

Python User Group (Chipy), NYCPython, Bay Area Python Group, BarCamp, etc.

Activism: Silicon Val ley Human Rights Conference 2011, ContactCon 2011, Shefﬁeld

Documentary Film Festival 2011, Air Mozilla 2011, University for Peace 2011, Yal e Law School

Global Censorship Conference 2012, Personal Democracy Forum 2012, HOPE 2012

Education

Continuing

David Beazley's small, intense classes explore advance techniques and the inner workings of Python.

Python Concurrency Workshop - April 2009

Python 3 I/O - February 2009

Jamming with Django - June 2010

Advanced Python Mastery - August 2010

University of Chicago 1996-2000

B.A. Computer Science

B.A. Economics

Roslyn High School, 1996

For a current resume, please visit peterfein.com/resume