# Peter Ammon

> Making reactors people want

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/peterammon

Software engineer. fish-shell guy.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Oklo Inc
Jan 2021 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Netflix
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Los Gatos
Worked on modernizing the JavaScript engine underlying the Netflix TV app.

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Built and shipped Hermes, a new JavaScript compiler and VM for mobile.

### Senior Frameworks Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Apple
Senior frameworks engineer on a secret project. Our team is developing a custom OS to meet strong requirements around safety, correctness, and predictability.

### Senior Manufacturing Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View
Working alongside electrical engineers, designed and implemented manufacturing software and procedures for prototype consumer electronics, including unit and fixture tests, logs pipeline, and more.

Working on-site with partner contract manufacturers, deployed the software, trained operators on test procedures, and supported builds.

### Software Engineer (Cocoa Frameworks) @ Apple
Jan 2004 – Jan 2014
• API and framework design, application architecture, systems programming, performance optimization, debugging fiendishly difficult problems

•  Comfortable in unfamiliar, large, and legacy codebases, which may have compatibility requirements, poor documentation, low test coverage, etc.

•  Multithreading, memory allocators, ABIs, compiler optimizations, debuggers, garbage collection, floating point, operating systems, and other system internals topics

• Algorithms, data structures, OOP, theory of computation, graphics, parsing, and other computer science topics

•  Unicode, internationalization, and localization topics

•  C, C++, Objective-C, assembly, Python, JavaScript, shell scripts, PHP, HTML, CSS.

•  Git, Subversion, lldb, gdb, Xcode and Instruments, Unix command line

### Integration Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2003 – Jan 2004
Responsible for testing OS X software updates across all Macintosh hardware. Developed some darn clever automated tests for games.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Mathematics
Cornell University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-11