Eric Peterson creates software and music, usually on computers. Sometimes in real life.

Recently
Byafest, 2025
Iceland, 2025
Gaining a Civic Voice with Large Language Models
- From September 2025: Byafest, 2025
- From September 2025: Iceland, 2025
- From August 2025: Gaining a Civic Voice with Large Language Models
Music
- Currently: Roger, Roll and other solo work as time allows.
- Previously: Golden Idols, Houses, Amazing Twin, and others in Denver circa 2007-2011.
- Production/engineering for I Am the Dot, KVDU Live Vol 1, and others.
- Pacific Northwest Bossa Nova
Software
- Currently: focused on Backstage, an open source developer portal platform.
- Co-founder at Automaton, a QA automation platform for SaaS and marketing technology.
- 8 years at Tableau in Seattle: Director, Marketing Engineering. Responsible for web, data, and QA engineering.
- First introduced to open source software through Drupal at the Open Media Foundation
- Formal education at the University of Denver: dual degree B.S. Computer Science, B.A. Digital Media. Most influential course: Unix Tools
- One of those people who got started back in the Geocities days. Proud MySpace CSS hacker.
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