Intro
Hey there - thanks for clicking around!
I'm what people call a software engineer. Basically, I drink coffee, eat snacks, and write code.
I'm familiar with Swift, Python, Java, Go, Javascript, HTML, and CSS.
And I'm willing to learn whatever it takes to get things working.
Some tools I like to use are AWS, ElasticSearch, React, Grafana, Jenkins, Django, Postgres, REST, GraphQL, Nginx, Firebase, the Facebook Graph API, Heroku, and MongoDB.
I love to chat about the newest tech, so feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
Work
I'm currently a Software Engineer at Instagram. I started my career at Viasat as an intern in 2017.
About
I graduated with a degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from UMass Amherst. I had always wanted to be an eye doctor until I developed my first app during sophomore year of college. That was back in 2016.
That same year, I attended HackUMass. It was pretty crazy. The energy was incredible, and my roommates and I actually won something! To this day, I still love hackathons.
After getting offered an internship at Viasat, I decided to try it out - it was awesome. In fact, it was so awesome I decided to become a software engineer instead!
Even though I put a career in medicine on hold, one day I hope to apply the skills I learn as a software engineer to healthcare.
But for now, I've got some new Javascript frameworks to learn. Gatsby is pretty cool!
Contact
Send me an email at petertao95@gmail.com