# Pete (@pete.futbol)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/pete.futbol
Headline: Freelance Product Engineer

## About

Currently building cerca.me and galeria.casa. I’m a digital product developer who most enjoys opportunities to collaborate with clients to build software that helps them do whatever they do better. Whether it’s helping choose and configure SaaS tools, building integrations between them, or designing and crafting custom apps, I’m most excited when I’m helping organizations solve their most important problems.

## Career

- **Freelance Product Developer at Albertson Product Development** (Sep 2017 - Present)
  Self-employed
- **Full Stack Engineer at Northwest Adoption Exchange** (2018 - Present)
  Solo engineer on the Rails platform that connects youth in foster care with adoptive families across the Pacific Northwest, prioritizing accessibility and usability for social workers and families, as well as security and privacy for child welfare data. Replaced a legacy, vulnerable adoption inquiry platform with a custom Rails app and Airtable integration, now serving thousands of families and social workers. Built role-based access controls supporting social workers, families, and administrators with distinct permission levels. Built in-depth child profile features in collaboration with social work staff, contributing to a 200% increase in adoption inquiries.
- **Technical Lead at Cerebro** (Aug 2025 - Jan 2026)
  Four-month engagement rebuilding backend architecture and communication systems for an AI-enhanced education startup. Rebuilt the WhatsApp messaging pipeline from scratch, replacing a fragile single-process setup with formatted templates, batched delivery via background jobs, and full delivery tracking, supporting broadcasts to thousands of families per send. Integrated AI/LLM workflows into production, including automated content redaction for compliance and AI-generated lesson plans, reducing manual content creation time for educators. Established Docker-based local development and a branching/deployment strategy, replacing ad-hoc processes that made regression tracking nearly impossible. Wrote new test suites with security scans for production data reliability.
- **Back End Developer at Apple** (Mar 2022 - Oct 2023)
- **Backend Engineer at Assemble Inc. / Apple Inc.** (2022 - 2023)
  Backend engineer on Apple’s affiliate marketing asset generation platform, built on Ruby on Rails and GraphQL. Built a custom image compression AWS Lambda (TypeScript/Node.js) from scratch, replacing a manual process in Apple’s asset generation pipeline. Rebuilt the internal error surfacing pipeline, giving the team visibility into failures they previously could not track. Worked within a large engineering organization on a production API serving external partners.
- **Developer, Project Manager, Product Manager at Helpful Human** (Oct 2014 - Sep 2017)
  Seattle
  With a badass team of designers and developers, I help clients solve problems with technology.
- **Full Stack Engineer at Helpful Human** (2014 - 2017)
  Led cross-functional teams of designers and developers on client engagements spanning custom Shopify stores, self-hosted CMS sites, and custom web applications. Served as primary client liaison from discovery through delivery, bridging non-technical stakeholders and engineering teams. Led new-client onboarding and ran Design Sprints to define product direction before writing code. Translated ambiguous client needs into actionable product specs and timelines, reducing scope creep and improving on-time delivery.
- **Engineering Intern at Seatgeek** (Jul 2014 - Sep 2014)
  New York

## Projects

- **cerca.me** (Jan 2024 - Present)
  Share your favorite places and follow your friends to discover theirs.

## Skills

### Other
- Adobe Creative Suite
- AWS Lambda
- Back-End Web Development
- Blogging
- Can reach things on high shelves
- Client Relations
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
- Crackin' Jokes
- Design Collaboration
- Digital Media
- Docker Products
- Drums & Cymbals
- Front-End Development
- GraphQL
- High-Fives
- HTML
- JavaScript
- Management
- MongoDB
- Node.js
- PHP
- PostgreSQL
- Product Management
- Project Management
- Python (Programming Language)
- React.js
- Redux
- Ruby on Rails
- Security
- Shopify
- Social Media
- Social Networking
- Tailwind CSS
- TypeScript
- Web Design
- Web Development

## Education

- **University of Southern California** — Bachelor of Music
  I studied classical percussion and drum set. Later I pivoted to programming and product development via Starter School in Chicago in 2013.
- **Starter School** (2013 - 2014)
  Activities & Societies: Debate Team, Mini-Masters Champion 2014
- **University of Southern California** — BM, Music Industry (Aug 2003 - May 2007)
- **University of Southern California** — Bachelor of Music (2003 - 2007)
  Activities & Societies: Hack n' Snack

## Languages

- Spanish (full professional)
- English

## Links

- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-albertson-codes