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Peter H. Boling Detroit, MI |  TZ-America/* | (925) 252-5351 | peter@railsbling.com

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Architect-level engineer, team lead and hands-on manager, with 25 years experience. Built well-tested systems and successful products. When paired with AI, my engineering capacity is unparalleled. Tidelift Maintainer since April 2022. Recognized by GitHub in July 2022 as maintainer of critical tools (ref). I speak 🇺🇸English (native), 🇲🇽Spanish (fluent), 🇧🇷Portuguese (fluent), and 🇮🇩Indonesian (basic). Began coding on TI-81, 83, & 85, then Pascal, C++, & PHP; on Rails since version 0.10, and Ruby since 1.8.5. I maintain roughly 100 RubyGems, downloaded millions of times per day. I can adapt to working in any timezone, and am happy to relocate if necessary.

Principal Engineer Team Lead @ VitalConnect  |  SJ, CA  |  Dec’22  |  2.3y  |  Mar’25

Stack: Rails microservices,RSpec,psql,AWS,GraphQL,BB

Developed reporting and alerting tools for cardiac health monitoring. Improved resiliency with robust testing, and setup CI for all internal projects and tools. Discovered and fixed many security issues. Undertook major refactorings which allowed the company to continue operations.

Coding Bootcamp Instructor @ edX, Michigan State U.  |  DT, MI  |  Mar’23  |  1.7y  |  Dec’24

Stack: React,GraphQL,Node,MongoDB,MySQL,PostgreSQL

Taught multiple semesters of Full Stack Web Dev with React, GraphQl, MongoDB, Mysql, and Node.

Director of Software Engineering @ Riviera Partners  |  SF, CA  |  Feb’20  |  2.8y  |  Dec’22

Stack: Rails 5.2,Ruby 2.5…2.7,RSpec,psql,S3,ES,Sk,k8,Hasura,GraphQL,CQRS+ES,Svelte,GH,Jx

PE-backed executive search firm with AI/ML-driven search system. Hired & managed back-end, devops, & contractors; $4MM headcount. Translated executive strategy to executable roadmap. 10x improved response times. Event Storming. Handled RIF with switch to low-code. Wrote service_actor-promptable.

Tech Advisor, Principal Engineer @ Karuna Health  |  SF, CA  |  Nov’18  |  1.5y  | Apr’20

Stack: Rails 5.2,Ruby 2.5…2.6,RSpec,psql,SQS,Protobuf,S3,ES,Sk,Aptible,GH

Connected patients with healthcare guides via consumer messaging apps as a B2B2C SaaS platform. Built Redox integration, email gateway. Advised on tech & hiring; part-time. Acquired by Commure, Inc.

Principal Engineer Team Lead @ Bolt Threads  |  SF, CA  |  Sep’17  |  0.8y  |  May’18

Stack: Rails 4.2…5.2,Ruby 2.3…2.5,RSpec,psql,Ubuntu,OPC DA

Cutting-edge materials science for fashion and beauty industries. Integrated OPC DA with Lab Information Management System (LIMS). Instrumented Stoll industrial knitting machine. LIMS maintenance & replacement. “Leadership Fundamentals” training; interviewed and hired new tech leadership.

Full-Stack Eng, Founder @ 9thBit LLC  |  SF, CA & NY, NY  |  May’16  |  3.6y  |  Nov’19

Stack: Rails 4.2…5.2,Ruby 2.0…2.6,React v16,Redux,RSpec,psql,S3,ES,Sk,GH,Cypress,Contentful,DynamoDB,S3 & CW,Mongo,Resque,BB,DO,DD,NR,SF

Agile software development agency. Built solutions across many industries.

Principal Engineer Team Lead @ Invoice2go  |  SF, CA & JK, INDO  |  Jan’16  |  1.1y  |  Feb’17

Stack: Rails 4.2,Ruby 2.3,RSpec,psql,S3,ES,Redis,Sk,CircleCI,Jenkins,GH Enterprise,ZD,NR

SMB invoicing B2B SaaS platform. Managed web team in web app rearchitecture, and dev tools team; built feature flags. Principal Engineer promotion; assigned leadership Eng role in Jakarta office. Acquired by Bill.com / Intuit.

Staff Engineer @ Trumaker & Co  |  SF, CA  |  Apr’14  |  2y  |  Apr’16

Stack: Rails 3.2,Ruby 2.0…2.1,RSpec,React,Ember,Haml,Slim,SASS,psql,S3,Sk,TravisCI,GH,SF,NR,Heroku

Bespoke M2M fashion. Monolith extractions to Ember/React. 12-state CRM w/ commissioned sales attribution. Wrote celluloid-io-pg-listener for real-time, 2-way, SalesForce integration. Thor automation.

CTO, Co-founder @ Acquaintable  |  NY, NY  |  Nov’12  |  1.1y  |  Nov’13

Stack: Rails 3.2,Ruby 1.9…2.0,RSpec,RequireJS,Bb+Mar,ZF,Neo4j,psql,S3,Sk,Puma,TravisCI,GH,Librato,NR,Heroku

Pitched, fund-raised, and implemented socially-curated dating via friends-of-friends. Touch-enabled SPA; Match UX < 10s. Seed round ERA-NYC Winter 2013; Acquired by Reveal (MS Ventures)

Senior Engineer Team Lead @ Bloomberg LP  |  NY, NY  |  Aug’10  |  2.3y  |  Nov’12

Stack: Rails 2.3…3.2,Ruby 1.8…1.9,Grape,RSpec,RequireJS,ZF,Slim,SASS,SOAP,Unicorn,Puma,TeamCity

B2B2C SaaS platform; tightly integrated portfolio management and performance reporting. 1st Employee @ Bloomberg Black. Hired team of 10; Promoted to Team Lead. JS flyout menus, scrollspy, breadcrumbs; Shaved 10ms/req; CMS w/ SSR & AJAX; Platform support – Win, RedHat & MacOS. Became CircleBlack in a messy breakup.

Senior Engineer Team Lead, Partner @ Sagebit, LLC  |  Indy, IN  |  Jun’07  |  4.6y  | Dec’11

Stack: Rails 1.2…3.1,Ruby 1.8…1.9,RSpec,Haml,CSS,jQuery,MySQL,Mongrel,Unicorn,GH,Debian,Ubuntu

Agile software development agency. Hired & trained team of 5 in stateless programming. Promoted to Team Lead, then Partner; Led buildout of RadioBookmark’s back-end. Internal projects: sports mgmt, events & tickets, spam analysis. Led team of 10 converting aSmallWorld to Rails; LB’d rolling 32 server prod env; 2MM uniques/month, & 300K page views/day; Data migration; Forum, photo sharing, friend network, page & user tracking; Polymorphic CMS; Advertising engine for Estee Lauder & Mercedes-Mclaren.

Full-Stack Eng, Founder @ 9thBit LLC  |  Indy, IN & NY, NY  |  Mar’07  |  7.8y  |  Nov’14

Stack: Rails 1.2…2.3,RailsLTS,Ruby 1.8…2.1,MySQL,RSpec,EPub,Solr,Redmine,jQuery,AJAX,CSS,Ubuntu,Haml,MySQL, Mongrel,Unicorn,TravisCI,GH,NR,CGI,Oracle 11g,rbenv,bash,daemons,RedHat

Agile software development agency. Built solutions across many industries.

Engineer @ Legislative Services Agency - IGA  |  Indy, IN  |  ‘97 & ‘06  |  2.3y  |  ‘99 & ‘07

Stack: Rails 1.1…1.2,Ruby 1.8,Oracle8i,9i,10g,jQuery,CSS,Redhat,IIS,XML,XSL,Tomcat,Cocoon,C#,Google Mini

Engineer @ Optivel, Inc  |  Indy, IN  |  Dec’04  |  1.4y  |  Apr’06

Stack: Rails 0.10…1.1,Ruby 1.8,Mongrel,MySQL,Bugzilla,Bash,PHP,Java,Perl,Scheme,Nagios,Debian,apt

Agile software development agency & IT solutions provider. Initially a linux sysadmin, I was promoted to Engineer; built “AirBnB for Airplanes”; managed apt mirror; built internal .deb packages

Top 15 Projects - Free (Libre) Open Source

Tidelift Maintainer since Apr’22, RubyGem & NPM Project Lead, 89+ libraries; Some of top DL @ Aug’25:

  1. os - determine what OS you are on; maintainer since 2022; 377MM DL
  2. oauth2 - OAuth 2, 2.1 & OIDC Client; maintainer since 2017; 230MM DL
  3. oauth - OAuth 1.0, 1.0a Client & Server; maintainer since 2021; 147MM DL
  4. version_gem - Gemspec-compatible VERSION enhancer; author, 2022; 95MM DL
  5. snaky_hash - A Hashie #snake_life joint, with serializers; author 2022; 83MM DL
  6. oauth-tty - OAuth 1.0 TTY Command Line Interface; author 2022; 12MM DL
  7. ruby-openid - OpenID v1 & v2 client/server library for Ruby; maintainer since 2024; 11MM DL
  8. dynamoid - Amazon DynamoDB ORM; maintainer since 2016; 9.7MM DL
  9. rack-openid - HTTP-ish wrapper for ruby-openid; maintainer since 2024; 7.7MM DL
  10. omniauth-openid - OpenID v2 Strategy for OmniAuth; maintainer since 2025; 3.9MM DL
  11. flag_shih_tzu - Bitfields for ActiveRecord; maintainer since 2012; 3.8MM DL
  12. gem_bench - Gemfile static analysis; author, 2013; 2.9MM DL
  13. sanitize_email - Email condom for Ruby server; author, 2009; 2.3MM DL
  14. omniauth-identity - Trad un/pw adapter for OmniAuth; maintainer since 2020; 1.9MM DL
  15. seed_migration - Rails gem for Data Migrations; maintainer since 2022; 1.5MM DL

Projects - Volunteer Work

Awards, Accolades and Certifications

Education (*)

(*) University for 8 years, part-time, while working ➔ A few classes short of a degree