# Peter Wielander

> Software Engineer building Workflow SDK @ Vercel

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/peterwielander

Staff Software Engineer and tech lead with 9 years of full-stack experience, of which 2 in
early-stage startups, 5 in mid-stage startups, and 2 as a contractor and consultant. Currently working on Workflow DevKit @ Vercel, previously leading technical implementation on the next generation of learning software at Minerva Project.

I’ve worked across three continents, three languages, and on all levels of the stack, committing significant portions of my career to each layer: distributed systems, orchestration, DevOps, database design, backends, API design, SPAs,  browser tech, accessibility, user research, context engineering, and even bare metal server operation. My educational background includes graduate-level classes in ML and Deep Learning at Georgia Tech.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer - AI Enablement @ Vercel
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA
Core Contributor to Workflow SDK and the Vercel Workflows integration

### Staff Engineer & Tech Lead @ Minerva Project
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
Lead development of a new education platform from scratch, including hiring, team
processes, QA, growth engineering, working closely with pilot customers.

Prototype and validate new AI integrations, like AI-assisted assessment flows, and
design UX and data pipelines to guarantee a 90%+ match with human graders.

### Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead @ Minerva Project
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Berlin, Germany
Architect a real-time state-sharing framework for our React and Django stack,
allowing React to access DB models as if all models were stored in memory, with
guaranteed real-time syncing to the actual DB, and high scalability, forming the
backbone of our product stack.

### Software Engineer @ Minerva Project
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Berlin, Germany
Lead development and scaling of real-time collaborative document
software, serving students across 10+ countries.

### Software Engineer @ Contentful
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Berlin, Germany
Published open-source SDKs downloaded 800k+ times weekly, and designed auth
solutions to allow customer plugins to integrate with Contentful’s platform.

Extended microservice backends serving millions of API calls every hour.

### Software Engineer @ Kaiterra
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Berlin, Germany
Designed, prototyped and shipped a consumer-facing web application for displaying
and interacting with air quality data.

### Software Engineering @ Kaiterra
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Beijing, China
Created an image rendering pipeline for creating air-quality heatmaps map tiles for
GIS tools.

Built machine learning model for predicting air quality data.

### Software Engineer @ reisetopia
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Berlin, Germany
Architect backend for managing hotel and flight bookings

### Freelance Software Developer @ Unknown
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Berlin, Germany
Full Stack web development contracting and freelancing.

### Full-stack Developer @ 17GRAD
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Berlin, Germany
Created web appearances for high-traffic online retailers, handling full-stack
implementation, styling, SEO and asset optimization, CMS integration, mobile device
support, internationalization (i18n), and web accessibility (a11y)

### Independent Software & IT Contractor @ Multiple Academic Research Centers in Berlin
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Berlin, Germany
Independently designed, developed, and shipped a distributed multi-tenant
WebRTC-based video management system for use in psychotherapy training
institutions and universities.

Ordered, installed, secured and maintained physical servers and equipment.


## Education
### Graduate Courses in Computer Science - Machine Learning
Georgia Institute of Technology

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Technische Universität Berlin

### Chinese Language
Hutong School Beijing


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-11