~ rené.peter — engineer
Hi, I'm René, a full-stack website engineer.
Backend Web Developer/Systems Engineer
// who am i
René J. Peter
20+ years building software Backend, performance & security
I'm a full-stack website and systems engineer with over 20 years behind me, based in Trinidad & Tobago. I started in hardware and support and worked my way across the whole stack — building and securing web and mobile apps, standing up the infrastructure they run on, and keeping them fast and reliable once they're live.
Most of my work is on the backend: secure REST APIs, content systems, and applied cryptography when a problem calls for it. Lately I've been building systems tooling in Go and Rust.
Away from the keyboard I cook a lot, keep a small garden, and can lose an afternoon to a good webnovel.
// skills & experience
What I work with
I build content management systems and RESTful APIs with Laravel and Go, backed by SQLite or PostgreSQL. Microservices, systems tooling, and scripts in Python, Go, Rust, and Bash. On the frontend: plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript, plus React, NextJS, AlpineJS, and TailwindCSS.
- PHP
- Laravel
- WordPress
- Go
- Rust
- Python
- SQLite
- PostgreSQL
- TailwindCSS
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- NextJS
- React Native
- AlpineJS
// selected work
What I'm building
sshare
in progressEnd-to-end encrypted secret-sharing tool. Secrets are encrypted in the browser and the key never reaches the server, so it only ever stores ciphertext it can't read. Built the first version in Laravel; now rewriting it in Rust, in the open.
Public repo opening soon