# Peter Alston

> Senior Software Engineer | Golang Dev | Anime Geek

Location: Oakley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/peteralston

Accomplished tech leader delivering reliable and scalable RESTful APIs in the cloud for over a decade. Collaborative team player with a proven track record of delivering high quality software while leading multiple business critical initiatives including a third party integration which has accrued over $2 million in yearly revenue. Possess a depth and breadth of industry experience with proven success spanning multiple areas, including code and design review, software architecture and technical planning, and training and development of fellow team members.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Synack, Inc.
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Secure Application Engineer @ Crunchyroll, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Directed a cross-collaborative financial project which saw me lead a three member team and delivered on a sprawling multimillion dollar initiative to break into an emerging market. This initiative generated $200k in revenue in its first month.
• Spearheaded the development of Crunchyroll’s next generation payment processor where we leveraged event sourcing + CQRS to create scalable APIs capable of handling thousands of transactions per minute.
• Pioneered a set of standards for our error logging which improved transparency into our systems which allowed us to build out dashboards and introduce real time alerting and monitoring to areas of the codebase that were not covered.
• Key member on an advisory committee to leadership on matters of platform security with a focus on account takeovers.

### Software Engineer @ SRSsoft
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | Montvale, NJ
•	Instrumental in the creation of a scalable web service that handles millions of requests each year. Platform saved ~35% in development time on future initiatives and is currently generating $3M+ dollars in annual revenue.
•	Helped significantly shrink application install footprint by reducing upgrade by 800% (from 4 hours to just 30 minutes). Resulted in significant savings for both clients and the implementation team.
•	Participate in code reviews, documentation writing, automated test cases, and unit tests.

### Computer Programmer @ irwin siegel agency, inc.
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
•	Created automated distribution system for software updates, allowing for easier and faster deployment of software across the organization. Resulted in minimized down time and a simple one-click deployment system.
•	Developed extensive libraries for their next generation agency management system. Efforts resulted in a small reusable code base which sped up the development cycle by ~25%.
•	Ported legacy Visual Basic 6 applications to VB.Net, allowing company to reuse existing apps.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
SUNY Polytechnic Institute


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alstonp89

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Last updated: 2026-04-01