# Peter Bowden > Senior Software Engineer at Violet Labs Location: Beacon, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/peterbowden Highly driven software engineer with extensive experience designing and developing systems from end to end. Adept at optimizing performance on both the frontend and backend, upskilling/reskilling quickly to deliver the most effective solution for a given technical problem, and collaborating cross-functionally with teammates and stakeholders through clear, open-minded communication. Demonstrated history of bringing mobile and web applications to market under tight deadlines. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Violet Labs Jan 2025 – Present ### Software Engineer @ Violet Labs Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 ### Full-Stack Software Engineer & Cofounder @ healthcoachpracticeexam.com Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Beacon, New York, United States • Led end-to-end design and development of the cloud native platform in GCP, optimizing for high scalability and low maintenance costs. • Refactored the MVP system's backend and integrated a GraphQL layer to eliminate over fetching, resulting in a 72% reduction in average response payload size for customers taking the exam. • Leveraged dynamic image resizing and CDN delivery to optimize the homepage, improving overall load speed by 40% and reducing image rendering time by 79%. • Collaborated with non-technical stakeholders to define product requirements and delivered software with 100% on-time record, meeting our ambitious 3-month deployment goal. ### Private Tutor & Computer Science Specialist @ Compass Education Group Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States • Developed 100s of interactive coding challenges to complement students’ pen-and-paper work and served as the company's primary authority on both APCS curricula. • Promoted to lead Verbal trainer for the New York office after only 8 months with the company and went on to train all new NY-based Verbal tutors from 2020-2022. • Specialized in exam preparation for AP Computer Science A (Java), AP Computer Science Principles (language agnostic), SAT, and ACT. ### Audio/Visual Engineer @ Unknown Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 • Developed audio/visual patches in Max/MSP/Jitter with custom JavaScript objects to generate interactive sound and projection design that responded to physical events in real time through gesture recognition. • Engineered, mixed, and mastered all live audio recordings for The Red Couch YouTube channel from 2018-2020, garnering over 300k views on YouTube. • Contributed additional engineering to J. Mamana’s debut record Nothing New in the West, which went on to receive an official Pitchfork album review (7.4). ### Python Developer @ Brown University Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Providence, Rhode Island, United States • Developed a Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis algorithm to analyze 20 years of Pitchfork reviews and reclassify the albums in the dataset into 12 distinct genre-agnostic topics, each of which was defined by the 15 descriptive words that were most probabilistically associated with it. • Preprocessed the data with a Porter stemming algorithm to ensure that the descriptive words comprising each topic were substantive and unique. ### iOS Developer @ ResolveIO (Winner of Boston's Startup of the Year in 2015) Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Providence, Rhode Island, United States • Co-led a team to revamp this small startup's UX/UI design and to rebuild its iOS application from scratch in an agile development environment. • Designed, developed, and tested a custom ticketing/messaging system to meet the founder's specifications in just over 2 months. ### iOS Developer (Entrepreneur in Residence) @ Brown University Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Providence, Rhode Island, United States • Selected to participate in Brown University’s inaugural Startup Accelerator to develop Opus: an educational iOS app that provided students with an interactive musical staff to help bridge the gap between theory and practice. • Designed and developed the infinite scroll feature that automatically extended the musical staff as the user composed. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Brown University Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ### Bachelor’s Degree in Music (Computer Music and Multimedia) Brown University Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ### Student Body President & Salutatorian Fort Worth Country Day ### Full-time Acting Conservatory Student William Esper Studio Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/peterbowden --- Source: https://flows.cv/peterbowden JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/peterbowden/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01