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"name": "Jeremy Petter",
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"Architect",
"Full Stack Developer",
"Specification Engineer",
"Markdown Author",
"Context Engineer"
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"availability": "available",
"availabilityDetail": "I am available for contract work, consulting and full-time roles. I am open to remote work and prefer to stay in Louisville, Kentucky.",
"email": "[email protected]",
"phone": "502-216-8264",
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"title": "Full Stack Developer",
"description": "Full stack development across frontend and backend technologies with a focus on C# and .NET for building production-ready web applications and APIs."
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"title": "Architect",
"description": "Architecture and systems design for scalable, reliable software — microservices, data pipelines, and cloud-native deployments."
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"title": "Specification Engineer",
"description": "Bridging business requirements and technical implementation using specification-driven development to produce clear, testable contracts between stakeholders,engineering teams and AI agents."
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"title": "Markdown Author",
"description": "Technical authoring in Markdown, producing clear developer-focused documentation, specs, and guides for engineers, teams, and AI."
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"description": "Optimizing prompts and context windows for large language models to improve relevance, reduce hallucination, and align outputs with business goals."
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"summary": "Jeremy Petter is a highly experienced Architect and Full Stack Developer with over 15 years of expertise in building mission-critical software systems. Based in Louisville, Kentucky, he specializes in C# and .NET, but his background spans complex microservices, high-throughput big data pipelines, and secure banking architectures. Currently, Jeremy is focused on the emerging field of Agentic AI and Specification-Driven Development (SDD), leveraging tools like Gemini and technical authoring in Markdown to bridge the gap between business requirements and technical execution. Throughout his career, which includes leadership roles such as IT Director and Team Lead, he has a proven track record of delivering high-value solutions.",
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"Software engineering has never been just a job for me; it is a lifelong pursuit of building systems that matter. With over 15 years of experience—ranging from crafting foundational web architectures for iconic brands to my current deep dive into AI and spec driven development—I have maintained a singular focus: delivering high-value solutions that solve complex real-world problems.",
"My career began with an under the hood obsession, evidenced by developing custom frameworks in bare JavaScript and building secure SPA platforms for PBI Bank. This deep understanding of the stack allowed me to scale alongside the industry. Whether I was architecting the global Pay Monitor system for Mercer or fast-tracking high-volume data visualizations for QSR during the COVID-19 pandemic, I have always thrived when the stakes are high and the architecture is complex.",
"For the past four years, I have pivoted my research toward enterprise-scale architectures, Big Data, and the emerging frontier of AI. My background as an IT Director and team lead uniquely positions me to bridge the gap between high-level stakeholder vision and technical execution. I don’t just build tools; I leverage Agentic AI and Specification Driven Development (SDD) to create autonomous, value-maximizing ecosystems.",
"I am equally comfortable working at the whiteboard or in the IDE, solving problems that require both a big picture architectural lens and a hands-on backend focus. I love this work because it challenges me to constantly evolve. I am looking for a role that demands this level of rigour—a place where my history in microservices and big data can empower the next generation of AI-driven projects."
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"company": "Petter Software Systems and Consulting",
"title": "Architect / Founder",
"logo": "petter.png",
"start": "2022",
"end": "2026",
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"Work with principle stakeholders to define requirements and translate them into technical specifications.",
"Currently building AI solutions for a company to manage social media, estimates and other back office tasks."
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"Created architectural plans and data schema for the following projects:",
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"tourism/travel social app with an emphasis on exploration and community involvement",
"video-based community app focused on debate and discussion",
"restaurant management system (reservations, ordering, staff ops, payments, analytics)",
"gig-work matching app for local freelancers",
"wellness survey to provide suggestions for better lifestyle"
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"Maintained high-throughput data pipelines for kitchen data across US/Europe (thousands of events/sec)",
"Maintained databases curated from data lakes and microservices; built data pipelines and reporting apps",
"Built Grafana dashboards and mobile/web reporting; led a cross-functional team and scrum ceremonies",
"Attended AWS re:Invent to research and share solutions"
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"Built .NET Core services to read AWS queues and store data in S3 and Redshift enabling monetization of kitchen data",
"Created preprocessing services to populate Redshift for fast, complex reports",
"Built schema-update process for Redshift to ensure consistent deployments",
"Created microservices, web dashboards and real-time APIs and mobile apps (Xamarin Forms)",
"Published a public site during COVID showing percent-change attendance heatmaps by state",
"Created deployments using Helm charts to define microservice requirements for deployment to Kubernetes clusters."
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"Built integrations with Salesforce and vendor systems (SOAP / REST)",
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"Managed Office 365, DNS/SSL, monitoring and servers; led hiring and reviews"
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"Built web, Windows and service applications in .NET, C#, WCF and SQL Server; SharePoint reporting integrations"
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"Successfully architected and deployed a high-volume custom CRM for Maker’s Mark, leveraging the C# stack to manage complex data workflows and high-capacity performance requirements.",
"Led a large-scale digital transformation at Kwantek, migrating high-traffic legacy ASP platforms to a modern, responsive C# and Bootstrap architecture.",
"Developed robust banking services for PBI Bank, utilizing C# to build secure systems for wire transfers and anomaly detection algorithms.",
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"Worked on a specialized Oracle-based query system using a custom SQL superset to aggregate and analyze global salary datasets for Mercer. Optimized cross-schema queries to maintain performance across multi-national data points.",
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"Eliminated bottlenecks in a high-volume MSSQL environment by analyzing execution plans and implementing strategic indexing. Reduced latency by automating index maintenance, offloading archival data, and implementing asynchronous delayed processing for non-critical writes.",
"Managed high-concurrency MySQL databases for QSR, maintaining uptime during peak loads of 1,000+ requests per second. Conducted rigorous performance tuning and query refactoring to ensure sub-millisecond response times for new feature deployments."
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"Developed a suite of internal tools using JavaScript and Vue.js to provide real-time reporting and data visualization for QSR’s kitchen operations, significantly improving data accessibility and decision-making for non-technical stakeholders.",
"Implemented complex client-side logic in JavaScript for a custom CRM system at Doe Anderson, enabling dynamic form generation and seamless integration with back-end services, which enhanced user experience and operational efficiency.",
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"Implemented complex ETL processes to transform raw data into optimized formats for Redshift, enabling fast, complex queries for business intelligence dashboards.",
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"Engineered a dynamic SQL generation engine that allowed the system to scale and manage high-capacity performance requirements for enterprise-level data."
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"Worked on an early online learning system in JavaScript",
"Visited COMDEX with the Computer Club",
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"Top 5 fastest time in 55m hurdles"
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"question": [
"What is a project that Jeremy has worked on that he is particularly proud of?",
"Can you tell me about a project Jeremy is proud of?",
"What project is a good example of Jeremy's work?"
],
"answer": "The project Jeremy and his team built for QSR to show heatmaps of restaurant attendance during the COVID-19 pandemic is a project he is particularly proud of. The timeline was very tight and the project was high-profile and required a completely new high traffic website. The team built a custom process to daily generate data from Redshift to JSON files that were served by a Vue website using D3 for data visualization. The site was featured in news outlets and provided valuable insights to the public during a difficult time.",
"image": "QSRHeatmap.png"
},
{
"question": [
"Can you describe a time Jeremy had to work under pressure to fix a production issue?",
"Has Jeremy ever had to handle a high-pressure situation?",
"Can you give an example of Jeremy handling a production issue under pressure?",
"Can you talk of a production outage Jeremy had to handle?"
],
"answer": "When a high-traffic job application site experienced performance failures, Jeremy immediately scaled system resources to maintain uptime while investigating the root cause. Using SQL performance monitoring tools, he identified a bottleneck in a specific query and implemented targeted indexing. This resolved the latency issues and restored system stability, culminating in a comprehensive post-mortem report for stakeholders to prevent future recurrence."
},
{
"question": [
"What are Jeremy's strong points?",
"Can you describe Jeremy's strengths?",
"What skills and qualities make Jeremy stand out?"
],
"answer": "Jeremy's strong points include his extensive experience in software architecture and full-stack development, his ability to lead teams and manage complex projects, and his expertise in a wide range of technologies and concepts. He has a proven track record of delivering high-value solutions that solve complex real-world problems, and he is particularly skilled at bridging the gap between high-level stakeholder vision and technical execution."
},
{
"question": [
"Is Jeremy willing to relocate?"
],
"answer": "No, Jeremy is not willing to relocate, but he is open to remote work and contract work that allows him to stay in Louisville, KY."
},
{
"question": [
"Where did Jeremy go to high school?",
"What was Jeremy's high school education like?"
],
"answer": "Jeremy attended Saint Xavier High School, where he completed his high school education and took AP coursework.",
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},
{
"question": [
"Where did Jeremy go to college?",
"What did Jeremy study in college?",
"Where did Jeremy go to school?"
],
"answer": "Jeremy attended Eastern Kentucky University, where he pursued a degree in Computer Science.",
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},
{
"question": [
"What hobbies does Jeremy have?",
"What does Jeremy like to do outside of work?",
"What does Jeremy do for fun?"
],
"answer": "Jeremy enjoys a variety of hobbies outside of work, including [trail running](https://trails.jeremypetter.com/), and playing the guitar."
},
{
"question": [
"Why would I hire Jeremy?",
"What makes Jeremy a good candidate?",
"Tell me about Jeremy.",
"What is Jeremy's work experience?"
],
"answer": "Jeremy has over 15 years of experience as a software engineer and architect, with a track record of delivering high-value solutions that solve complex real-world problems. He has experience with a wide range of technologies and concepts, including microservices, TDD, DDD, Spark, data lakes, SignalR, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Git and Scrum. His strongest language is C#. He is also a team leader and mentor who can bridge the gap between high-level stakeholder vision and technical execution. If you have a job description you can use the Job Fit feature on the website to see how well Jeremy's skills and experience match the requirements of the role."
},
{
"question": [
"What drives Jeremy in his work?",
"What motivates Jeremy in his career?",
"What drives Jeremy?",
"What motivates Jeremy?"
],
"answer": "Jeremy is driven by the opportunity to solve complex problems and create high-value solutions that have a real impact. He enjoys the challenge of working on high-stakes projects and is motivated by the opportunity to lead teams and mentor others. He is also passionate about staying up-to-date with emerging technologies and finding ways to leverage them to create innovative solutions."
},
{
"question": [
"What salary is Jeremy looking for?",
"What are Jeremy's salary expectations?",
"What is Jeremy's desired salary?"
],
"answer": [
"Jeremy is targeting a salary range starting at $80,000, and a contract rate starting at $40 per hour, depending on the tech stack and project scope. He is willing to entertain and discuss any opportunities. While he brings extensive experience as a Team Lead and Enterprise Architect, he is also interested in roles that offer hands-on experience with AI and specification-driven development tools like Kiro, Claude Code, and Codex.",
"For the right opportunity to master these emerging technologies, he is willing to enter at an intermediate salary level, providing the employer with the added value of his senior-level architectural and planning expertise."
]
},
{
"question": "What is Jeremy's experience with the .NET ecosystem and C#?",
"answer": [
"With 15 years of expertise spanning the evolution of C# and .NET, Jeremy is a seasoned architect of high-performance systems. He has demonstrated his technical depth by engineering TurnObjects, a proprietary ORM and code-generation framework, and architecting mission-critical solutions for high-volume CRMs and secure banking services. A specialist in modernization, Jeremy also excels at migrating high-traffic legacy platforms to contemporary C# and Bootstrap architectures."
]
},
{
"question": "Can you provide an overview of Jeremy's professional background and core expertise?",
"answer": [
"Jeremy is a Specification Engineer and Architect with over 15 years of experience in full-stack development, team leadership, and data engineering.",
"He specializes in building complex architectures for high-stakes environments, ranging from secure banking platforms to high-throughput big data pipelines.",
"His current focus involves leveraging Agentic AI and Specification Driven Development (SDD) to create autonomous, value-maximizing ecosystems."
]
},
{
"question": "How has Jeremy handled high-pressure situations or tight deadlines?",
"answer": [
"Jeremy is particularly proud of a high-profile project built for QSR to show heatmaps of restaurant attendance during the COVID-19 pandemic.",
"Despite a very tight timeline, his team built a custom process to generate data from Redshift to JSON files served by a Vue website using D3 for visualization.",
"The site was featured in news outlets and provided valuable insights to the public during a difficult time."
]
},
{
"question": "Can you describe Jeremy's experience with Big Data and data pipelines?",
"answer": [
"As Team Lead for Big Data at QSR, Jeremy managed high-throughput pipelines processing thousands of events per second across the US and Europe. He spearheaded the monetization of kitchen data by building .NET Core services to ingest AWS queues into S3 and Redshift, further optimizing the ecosystem with preprocessing services for complex reporting. Additionally, he implemented Grafana dashboards to ensure robust, real-time monitoring of the entire data infrastructure."
]
},
{
"question": [
"What leadership experience does Jeremy bring to a technical team?",
"Can you describe Jeremy's experience leading technical teams?",
"How has Jeremy mentored and managed teams in the past?",
"What leadership skills does Jeremy have?"
],
"answer": [
"With over 15 years of leadership experience, Jeremy excels at translating high-level stakeholder visions into successful technical executions. In his roles as IT Director at Kwantek and Team Lead at QSR, he has consistently driven growth by managing product roadmaps, overseeing hiring and code reviews, and facilitating Scrum ceremonies for cross-functional teams. A dedicated mentor and innovator, he bridges the gap between strategy and development by implementing cutting-edge solutions from AWS re:Invent to keep his teams at the forefront of the industry."
]
},
{
"question": "How does Jeremy ensure the scalability and stability of microservices?",
"answer": [
"With five years of experience architecting high-performance microservices, Jeremy specializes in deploying scalable solutions within AWS-based Kubernetes (EKS) environments. He has a proven track record of engineering event-driven systems to process high-volume asynchronous data via Amazon SQS and developing worker services to orchestrate complex data movement across S3, Redshift, and MySQL. Additionally, his expertise includes automating large-scale Redshift schema migrations to ensure long-term system stability and performance."
]
},
{
"question": [
"What is Jeremy's favorite programming language?",
"Which programming language does Jeremy prefer?",
"What programming language does Jeremy like the most?",
"What is Jeremy's favorite language?"
],
"answer": "He is most productive in C#, valuing its robust features such as LINQ and lambda expressions. He appreciates how the language evolves to incorporate modern functional programming techniques, offering the flexibility to handle nearly any challenge. Nevertheless, he remains a pragmatist regarding technology; should a project demand heavy data manipulation, he is quick to pivot to Python to ensure the best results."
},
{
"question": "What experience does Jeremy have with database management and optimization?",
"answer": [
"Jeremy has 15 years of experience with SQL across MSSQL, MySQL, and Oracle environments.",
"*Eliminated bottlenecks in high-volume MSSQL environments by analyzing execution plans and implementing strategic indexing.",
"*Managed high-concurrency MySQL databases for QSR, conducting performance tuning to ensure sub-millisecond response times during peak loads.",
"*Architected multi-tier relational databases for high-stakes loan approval and banking systems."
]
},
{
"question": [
"What is a time when Jeremy failed?",
"Can you tell me about a failure Jeremy experienced and what he learned from it?",
"Has Jeremy ever had a project that didn't go as planned? What happened and what did he learn?",
"Can you share an example of a failure Jeremy faced and how he handled it?"
],
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"answer": [
"He once managed a site migration that failed because he didn’t validate the infrastructure constraints early enough. He had delegated the data transfer to a local contact, but he didn’t set specific benchmarks for them to meet. ¶By the time he realized the transfer speed was insufficient, the team had already missed their window. It was a wake-up call regarding oversight versus delegation. Since then, he has made it a rule to perform stress tests on any critical path item well before the deadline. It taught him that 'trust but verify' isn’t just a cliché—it’s a project management necessity.",
"At QSR, he was responsible for designing an API schema for a new survey system. He wanted the architecture to be future-proof, so he built it around broad CRM channel concepts—meaning it could handle not just surveys, but email and participation tracking as well. ¶The failure was that he optimized for **flexibility** over **usability**. The UI team found the abstraction layer confusing, which slowed down their integration and created friction between the teams. He realized he had built a powerful engine but forgot the 'steering wheel.' In retrospect, he should have initiated a cross-functional workshop to align on these concepts earlier. Now, whenever he designs a complex schema, he always includes a 'Developer Experience' phase where he provides helper functions and clear documentation tailored to the specific needs of the frontend team.",
"He once missed the mark on a project by over-interpreting a stakeholder's feedback. When his COO noted an outdated visual on their site, he took it upon himself to plan a total UI overhaul. He spent weeks on a roadmap, only to realize that the COO’s frustration was centered entirely on one specific, low-quality asset. ¶He learned a valuable lesson in active listening and resource allocation. By jumping to a 'total redesign,' he was prepared to spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours on a problem that could be solved in an afternoon. This experience changed how he approaches executive feedback; he now prioritizes 'quick wins' that build trust and immediate value before proposing long-term, high-effort architectural changes."
]
},
{
"question": [
"Is Jeremy familiar with modern Cloud and DevOps tools?",
"What experience does Jeremy have with cloud architecture and deployment tools?",
"Can you describe Jeremy's experience with cloud platforms and DevOps tools?"
],
"answer": [
"Jeremy has extensive experience with cloud architecture and deployment tools.",
"His technical stack includes AWS (Lambda, S3, Redshift, SQS), Docker, Kubernetes, and Git.",
"He has utilized Octopus Deploy for release management and has moved QA environments to Azure to realize significant cost savings."
]
}
]