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 for startups, 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 in a startup environment. My business works with several startups and investors in the Pacific Northwest and Silicon Valley as a technical advisor and developer.

Aside from that, I'm an avid traveler and photographer, and always enjoy 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 (1 month)

  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.

Additional Information

Peat Bakke’s Interests:

E-commerce, new technology, AJAX, Ruby on Rails, lean manufacturing, project management, independent music, snowboarding, photography, fly fishing

Peat Bakke’s Contact Settings

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