Caroline Peterson

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VP of Engineering at Beacon HQ · C, hardware bring-up

Beacon HQ
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
12+ years experience
University of Washington
English
Co-founder
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Overview

VP of Engineering at Beacon HQ, focused on embedded systems. Shipped 23 launches on the firmware team without a rollback. Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: Atlassian and Goldman Sachs. Most at home with hardware bring-up and Bluetooth LE. Big believer in written communication.

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Skills
embedded LinuxChardware bring-upBluetooth LE
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Need a commercial co-founder: insurance claims in India and SEA

The idea
Insurance claims in India and SEA
Stage
Early revenue
I bring
13 years in embedded systems
Looking for
Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
San Francisco or remote

I bring 17 years of embedded systems (currently Beacon HQ). Ideally you've led a design team. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

San Francisco, CAhardware bring-upembedded linuxc
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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Apr 2024 - Present
    Beacon HQ · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Built the experimentation framework 8 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 601ms to 99ms.
    • Moved 67% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Embedded Engineer
    Sep 2021 - Apr 2024
    Atlassian · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 524ms to 173ms.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Feb 2020 - Sep 2021
    Goldman Sachs · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Led the migration of 49 services to embedded Linux.
    • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 45% in two quarters.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Dec 2017 - Feb 2020
    Uber · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 730ms to 94ms.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Oct 2014 - Dec 2017
    Airbnb · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Wrote the Bluetooth LE service that now handles 67 million requests a day.
    • Led the migration of 53 services to hardware bring-up.

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Education

  1. University of Washington
    BS, Mathematics
    2004 - 2008

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