pete.shima
Currently building

Engineering leader by day. Compulsive builder by night.

I lead high-scale, reliable backend platforms — and ship weird little side projects on the weekend. Previously Fortnite, Epic Games, HashiCorp, AWS, and Rockstar.

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Pete Shima
scaled to millions 🎮
reliability nerd ⚙️
Built & scaled at Epic GamesFortniteHashiCorpAWSRockstar
Projects

Stuff I'm building

Glitchjack screenshot
live · 2025

Glitchjack

A blackjack-inspired game riddled with glitches — full backend and frontend, vibe-coded over a weekend just to see how far the tooling could go.

GoReactPostgres
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Golfslot screenshot
building · 2026

Golfslot

Tee-time slots, simplified. A work-in-progress build. (TODO: drop in the real pitch.)

Next.jsEdge
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Lick-It screenshot
live · 2025

Lick-It

A quick, silly browser game built purely for the fun of it. (TODO: drop in the real pitch.)

CanvasJS
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Writing

From the blog

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Essay Apr 2026
On Software Quality
Job Review Jan 2026
Job Post: Matchmaking Backend Engineer (Go)
Incidents Nov 2025
The most interesting thing about the Cloudflare incident report isn’t in the report.
Building Aug 2025
Getting Cooked by AI – A GameJam story
Job Review Aug 2025
Job Posting Review: Grinding Gear Games – Web Programmer
Career Aug 2025
Will AI Agents Transform Senior Engineer Career Peaks?
Experience

The track record

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2023 — 2025 Director, Fortnite Online Epic Games
2019 — 2023 Engineering Director Epic Games
2016 — 2019 Lead Systems Engineer Epic Games
2015 — 2016 Site Reliability Engineer HashiCorp
2012 — 2015 Manager, Systems — ELB / S3 Amazon / AWS
2004 — 2011 Multiple Roles Rockstar Games