Peter Hosey's résumé

Profile

Two decades' experience in software development. Thrives on working cooperatively and collaboratively with other people.

Skills

Collaboration

• Researching and analyzing problems and developing recommendations
• Facilitating discussions and ensuring all voices are heard
• Designing compelling graphics and messages in collaboration with fellow activists
• Building and administering technology as a force multiplier for change

Tech

Education

• Home-schooled; GED
• Self-taught in tech
• Training and experience in activism skills including facilitation, canvassing, protest marshaling, etc.

Previous experience

• 2023-05 to present

  Volunteer with Field Team 6 Analytics Team

  • Helping turn their database into metrics such as success rates
  • Emphasis on generating the metrics from the database so the org can verify correctness and repeat the same procedures for future cycles
  • Developed custom software that runs on Mac and Linux

• 2017-01 to present

  Activist at Indivisible SF

  • Policy thinker, drawing on credible reporting and leftist commentary to develop political opinions and agenda positions
  • Author of explainers on topics such as counting every vote, police militarization, the debt ceiling, and more
  • Member of Steering Commitee
  • Slack administrator

• 2014 to 2018

  QA engineer and integrator in the Cocoa team at Apple

  • Responsible for the overall health of the Foundation framework
  • Maintained unit tests and the build plan
  • Maintained the health and improved the usability of the automated testing system

• 2004 to 2011;
  Lead Developer from 2008 to 2011

  Developer on Growl, open-source user-notification system (forebear to Apple's Notification Center)

  • Screened bug report emails and filed and fixed confirmed bugs

• 2003 to 2014

  Developer on Adium, instant-messenger client for macOS that supports AIM, Google Talk, and other services

  • Helped rewrite contact list drawing using Quartz, achieving a 2–3× (est.) speed increase
  • Rearchitected Adium's internal usage of macOS's Keychain

• Has written web apps and other tools, including:

  • Gobble (JavaScript): browser-based implementation of the word-search game Boggle
  • Slack export filter (Python): tool to enable searching Slack history exports

• Wrote documentation of several programming topics:

  • Everything you need to know about pointers in C, an online booklet thoroughly, concisely, and clearly explaining pointers
  • A series of blog posts about Apple System Logger (a macOS diagnostic API), which evolved from a brief summary into a comprehensive deep dive with bug reports