# Kurt Peek > Software Engineer at Apple Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kurt Analytical software engineer with a strong background in mathematics and physics. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Apple Jan 2020 – Present ### Backend Engineer @ Fleetsmith Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 ### Software Engineer @ Venmo Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area At Venmo, I contributed to both the backend (a Tornado web server using the Django ORM) and the Android app. Key achievements include: - Reduced the response time of an API endpoint by 40% by reducing the number of database queries - Fixed a release-blocking bug in the iOS app - Set up marketing campaign attribution for deep links to the Venmo app ### Software Engineer @ Cleo Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Cleo provides a benefits package to employers who wish to provide additional tech-enabled support to new parents, both prenatal and postpartum. I developed and delivered RESTful APIs for our app's backend as well as automation and case management tools for our Cleo guides. ### Backend Engineer @ IperLane, Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Milan Area, Italy At IperLane - now merged with Crowdstrike - we built a mobile monitoring and access control platform which enables organizations to protect sensitive data on their employees’ mobile devices. I was responsible for the server side of the platform which implemented access control rules and anomaly detection. ### Reservoir Geophysicist @ Shell Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | Assen, Netherlands As a Quantitative Interpretation (QI) Geophysicist at NAM (a Shell-operated joint venture between Shell and ExxonMobil), I contributed to increasing the success rate of exploration and development wells by screening prospects for the presence of direct hydrocarbon indicators (DHIs) on seismic. My achievements include: • Made several gas and brine predictions which polarized drilling decisions representing tens of millions of euros of investment • Generated renewed interest in prospects previously thought to have low volumes or probability of success (POS) by identifying DHIs supporting fault seal scenarios • Performed post-mortem analyses on five wells which found shorter hydrocarbon columns than expected, explaining the outcomes (albeit with the benefit of hindsight) • Increased anomaly confidence in an infill target by applying amplitude-versus-offset (AVO) analysis • In a thin-bed prospect, explained variations in amplitude by tuning effects ### Thesis Project Intern @ Thales Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Hengelo, the Netherlands Contributed to modeling and simulation of the Surface Scout radar. • Characterized the performance of stealthy FMCW (Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave)-Doppler radars with transmitter architectures based on Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS) in the presence of spurious signals due to the discrete nature of these synthesizers • Investigated novel algorithms to compensate for phase errors in the transmitted signal of FMCW radars by digital post-processing ### Intern @ Stanford University Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 | Stanford, CA Contributed to efforts to deposit an epitaxial thin film of PrBa₂Cu₄O₈, a homolog of the high-temperature superconductor YBa₂Cu₄O₈, on a SrTiO₃(100) substrate by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) followed by ex-situ annealing in flowing oxygen. Independently explained (though so-called Hendricks-Teller analysis) anomalies in the observed X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns by the presence of intergrowth defects. ### Teaching assistant @ University of Twente Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 Guided homework classes and lab sessions in mathematics and MATLAB. ## Education ### M. Sc. in Applied Physics University of Twente Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ### M. Sc. in Applied Mathematics University of Twente Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ### B. Sc. in Applied Physics University of Twente Jan 2002 – Jan 2007 ### Rijnlands Lyceum ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kurtpeek - Website: https://www.kurtpeek.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/kurt JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kurt/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22