# Peter Geertsema

> Software Engineer at Google

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/petergeertsema

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States
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### First Software Engineer @ Manatee
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | College Park, Maryland, United States
YC S22. https://www.trymanatee.com/

### Lead Infrastructure Engineer @ Smith Investment Fund
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | College Park, Maryland, United States
In charge of a significant portion of SIF's research infrastructure.

Manage several other members and mentor new members in software engineering best practices.

### Senior Quantitative Developer @ Smith Investment Fund
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | College Park, Maryland, United States
Developing backtesting and metrics infrastructure for  UMD club focused on quantitative analysis of the stock market.

### Junior Quantitative Analyst @ Smith Investment Fund
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | College Park, Maryland, United States
Researched, developed, and implemented quantitative trading strategies.

### SWE Intern @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States
Interned on Google search's Unified Media Platform (UMP)'s vertical team.

Rebuilt search's live TV ingestion pipeline to reduce latency from 8 hours to 4 hours.

Onboarded and launched network schedules for the NHL and MLS leagues on Google search.

Built tool for automatically validating correctness of new sports data, saving days of dev time.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Quandry
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | United States
YCombinator S22 batch, pivoted from Quandry to Manatee. 

Responsible for designing, and developing Quandry's backend infrastructure. This includes financial backtesting, data ingestion, AWS infrastructure, and live trading.

### SWE Intern @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | United States
Implemented internal full-stack application to automate previously manual business-critical process, saving days of engineering time per month and recovering over $10 million/year.

Tackled numerous code health projects to reduce technical debt and free up full-time engineering hours.

### STEP Intern @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Created and delivered a design document for a data visualization tool outlining functionality, dependencies, and timeline across three major development iterations.
Designed and developed frontend using Google Charts and Angular in conjunction with six
custom components and ten custom services in TypeScript
Setup continuous integration and AppEngine deployment to streamline development process
Implemented a full-stack portfolio page using Google AppEngine and Java Servlets

### Software Development Intern @ Inflectra Corporation
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Fully responsible for several key projects for Inflectra. Amongst these was a variety of integrations between Inflectra's Spira platform and other products including Jasmine, Jest, ServiceNow, and Azure DevOps Pipelines. The integration for ServiceNow was by far the most sophisticated of these integrations with a comprehensive two-way data synchronization service between ServiceNow and Inflectra's Spira platform. As a side project, I also converted Inflectra's Spira platform and KronoDesk documentation from PDF's to a website dynamically populated from a GitHub repo.
All of these projects were deployed to real customers.

### Software Development Intern @ Inflectra Corporation
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Integrated Inflectra's Spira platform with extensions for VS Code, Visual Studio 2017, JUnit 5, GitHub, GitLab, Pytest, and NUnit 3. GitHub and GitLab were full two-way data synchronization services. All of these projects were deployed to real customers.

### Software Development Intern @ Inflectra Corporation
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Updated a plugin for Eclipse and built a new plugin for Jetbrains IDE's from scratch.
Both of these were deployed to real customers.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Maryland
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022

### High School Diploma
Montgomery Blair High School
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/peter-geertsema
- GitHub: https://github.com/peterpie123

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Last updated: 2026-03-23