Peat Bakke

Current

Professional Services Lead at JanRain, Inc.

Past

Co-Founder at Blue Hill Solutions
Project Director at PLANET ARGON
Co-Founder at Tables Turned

Sr. Software Developer at Local Orbit
Contractor at SKT Corp.
Sr. Web Developer at Usefilm.com
Founder at bigbluebang.com
E-Commerce Project Manager at Oregon Mountain Community
Java Developer at Immunix
Assistant Engineer at Will Vinton Productions
Software Developer at Oregon Graduate Institute
QA Intern at Reprise, Inc.

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Peat Bakke’s Summary

I have over a decade of experience building web applications, including scalable social networks and business applications handling over a million hits per day.

From concept to deployment, I have a thorough understanding of what it takes to deliver complex and business critical applications. As the Professional Services Lead at JanRain, I've worked with companies ranging from garage startups to international financial institutions to build reliable, high performance identity management tools.

I also speak at conferences and workshops (SAO's Act of Making Clouds, WebVisions '09, Ignite Portland 2), enjoy travelling and photography, and always look forward to talking with new people about new ideas.

Peat Bakke’s Specialties:

Identity management and CRM systems, business development, web oriented architectures, scalability and performance resolution, service integration, project management.

Peat Bakke’s Experience

Professional Services Lead

JanRain, Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

July 2009 — Present (5 months)

Technical sales, project management, client communication, and software development.
Co-Founder

Blue Hill Solutions

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

April 2006 — June 2009 (3 years 3 months)

Blue Hill Solutions has grown out of my successful consulting business, providing technical consulting and development services for startups.
Project Director

PLANET ARGON

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

January 2006 — May 2006 (5 months)

Client relations, business development, project management, and sales. Projects included content management and media portals for a Fortune 100 company, a social networking platform for targeting vertical markets, and several applications for startup companies.
Co-Founder

Tables Turned

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

July 2005 — January 2006 (7 months)

Business development, marketing, software development, and cat herding. Tables Turned built several web applications to help publicise and distribute podcasts.
Sr. Software Developer

Local Orbit

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

Prototyped and demonstrated web applications, provided technical sales, and guided technical aspects of the business. Local Orbit helped build communities around businesses, using blogging, syndication, and automated marketing tools.
Contractor

SKT Corp.

(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2004 — February 2005 (6 months)

Worked as a single developer to created a web based tool for tracking law enforcement credentials, training, and class scheduling within the US Forest Service.
Sr. Web Developer

Usefilm.com

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)

2003 — 2004 (1 year )

Helped transition Usefilm.com to rewritten codebase, new database, and a clustered architecture. The system handled 1M+ hits per day, with a 25k+ user base, and approx. 1TB of searchable images.
Founder

bigbluebang.com

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

2002 — 2004 (2 years )

A small web hosting and custom development company, with a focus on helping community oriented projects in Portland, Oregon.
E-Commerce Project Manager

Oregon Mountain Community

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Retail industry)

2001 — 2002 (1 year )

Managed OMC's initial e-commerce project; I've also contracted with them on and off in the subsequent years to enhance the site, including integration with Froogle and Shopzilla services to increase sales 1600% in Q4 2005.
Java Developer

Immunix

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year )

Helped build a web interface for a secure "network appliance," built prototypes for investors, provided technical marketing support, tested and developed security tools for Linux. Immunix has since been acquired by Novell.
Assistant Engineer

Will Vinton Productions

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Media Production industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year )

Assistant Audio/Video Engineer, working with animation (stop motion and computer), advertising (M&Ms, Cyrix, 3 Musketeers, and Chili's -- the (in)famous "baby back ribs" ad), and television (The PJ's).
Software Developer

Oregon Graduate Institute

(Educational Institution; Computer & Network Security industry)

1997 — 1997 (less than a year)

Testing and development of the Stackguard C compiler, resulting in a paper published at the 1998 USENIX Security Conference ("StackGuard: Automatic Adaptive Detection and Prevention of Buffer-Overflow Attacks" -- Google for a PDF)
QA Intern

Reprise, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

1996 — 1996 (less than a year)

Built QA regression scripts to test a VHDL / Verilog validation suite, and made my first venture into dynamic web sites with Perl + CGI.