Peter Boling
Frontier operator. Reliably repeatable outcomes make the world work better. Gems: oauth, oauth2, ruby-openid, resque, dynamoid, appraisal2, etc. 25yrs of eng & mgmt xp. Ex-Full Stack Instructor @ MSU & Certified Barista.
- Role
- Maintainer at GitHub
- Location
- Waterford, MI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Peter Boling
Cover photo: Made by me using Inkscape.Team leader, mentor, and builder of web applications great and small, since 2004; system administrator since 1997. Passionate about testing, efficiency, learning best practices, and improving the human condition by automation.Familiar with Ruby and Javascript frameworks, old and new, but appreciate Rails and SvelteJS most. Sponsored and recognized by Github in July 2022 as one of 904 developers whose open source code their platform relies on. Engineered solutions for nearly every industry sector. Specialize in migrating legacy systems to modern architectures utilizing principles of BDD, and Prefer event storming for deriving lexicon of a business domain.Built world’s first enterprise Rails app running on Windows Server 2k3 & IIS6 + FastCGI w/ SSO (2006). Led massive PHP-to-Rails migrations @ aSmallWorld (2008-9) and BibleGateway (2009-10).FLOSS Leader and Advocate, hundreds of thousands of projects and companies rely on my open source work.
Experience
Maintainer
Sep 2025 — Present
Each GitHub Secure Open Source Fund session is a three-week sprint plus continued engagement for a total of 12 months. Funding and participation are tied directly to outcome‑driven goals and verified security improvements.The sprint is designed and curated by the GitHub Security Lab, and delivered by security experts from GitHub and our partners. The training is structured into different focus areas per week. These include- Foundations of open source security- Threat modeling and secure coding- AI security and vulnerability managementI was selected for participation with my oauth2 rubygem project.Throughout this program, each project receives USD via GitHub Sponsors (which breaks down to USD during the sprint and USD at 6- and 12-month security check-ins). Projects are invited to a new security-focused community and office hours with the GitHub Security Lab, which they can take advantage of during the full 12 months. They also receive security resources to immediately implement in their project and Azure credits for cloud infrastructure.
Education
Purdue University
Management Information Systems, MIS, Science
Escola Graduada de São Paulo
Chemistry, Programming, Languages, Writing, Math
Muncie Central High School
Indiana Core 40 Honors Diploma, Computer Science
Ball State University
Computer Science, Science & Humanities
Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
Computer Information Technology, Computer Programming, Security, Networking
Skills
- Css
- Agile Methodologies
- Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
- Web Project Management
- Ember.js
- Mobile Applications
- Jenkins
- Software Development
- Python
- Scrum
- Provisioning
- Web Development
- Backbone.js
- Test Driven Development
- Rspec
- Agile Application Development
- React.js
- Unix
- Agile Project Management
- Bdd
- Test Automation
- User Experience
- Cms
- Ruby
- Web Applications
- Html5
- User Acceptance Testing
- Open Source
- Training
- Data an
- Jmeter
- Sql
- Linux
- System Monitoring
- Node.js
- Subversion
- Application Development
- Mysql
- Html
- Optimization
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