# Peter Lavigne

> Software Engineer

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/peterlavigne

Full-stack software engineer with seven years of professional experience,
primarily focused on developer productivity, test reliability, and AI applications.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer III @ Verily
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Led project expanding access to the world’s largest genomic dataset, coordinating between vendors, the NIH, and security teams, by migrating to GDPR-compliant dependencies

Transformed testing infrastructure, improving CI success rates from 31% to 91%, reducing suite execution time from 40 to 21 minutes, and cutting CI costs by 58%

Engineered an LLM-powered utility that transforms Jira bug reports into ready-to-use database seed data, accelerating bug reproduction and boosting developer efficiency

Drove architectural decisions enabling my team to cut two weeks from each release cycle

Improved developer productivity across teams by optimizing build systems (minutes to seconds) and reducing on-call alert noise from 42 to 3 weekly notifications

Cultivated engineering excellence by leading book clubs (software design, testing), delivering talks (OAuth/OIDC, system design), and authoring essays (architecture, monitoring/alerting)

Many of my contributions were open source:
https://github.com/all-of-us/workbench/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3APeter-Lavigne

### Software Engineer II @ AppFolio, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Goleta, California, United States
Achieved 65% automation of a manual task done thousands of times per day by augmenting a machine learning system with a rules system

Gave multiple company-wide technical demos, including one on early generative AI tooling

Taught classes on testing practices, such as what TDD is and when it is most and least useful

Reduced invalid user contact info by 83% by creating data diagnostics tools for users

Established a bug triage and prioritization process, significantly decreasing our bug backlog

### Software Engineer @ SIGMASurgical
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Encoded entire AWS infrastructure in Terraform, allowing engineers to create separate production and development environments

Created the web client for the flagship app using React and Redux

Added search functionality to the app using Elasticsearch and AWS lambda

### Software Engineer Intern @ AppFolio, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Goleta, California, United States
Converted a legacy budgeting page to React and added new functionality

Improved usefulness of customer feedback by moving it into a searchable database

### Web Developer @ Checksum Tech
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Fixed Shopify sites using HTML and CSS

### Software Engineer Co-op @ Tamr Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, Massachusetts
Implemented core features of a full stack testing infrastructure including performance alerting to Slack, automated testing in a CI server, a custom JUnit test runner, and a database for test metrics


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Northeastern University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/peter-lavigne
- Portfolio: https://peterlavigne.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-28