Peter Shmain

Remote

• —Lead developer on the ordination-documents suite. Rebuilt a failing third-party pipeline handling a significant amount of the company's customers and revenue into a first-party system, cutting document processing and delivery time by roughly two-thirds on a $750K annual revenue line.
• —Scoped and prioritized work directly with the CTO and Head of Product. Continuously cross collaborated across the organization in order to pivot to most needed ongoing product improvements.
• —Consolidated customer records scattered across three disconnected third-party tools into one first-party database, migrating all historical data and eliminating the duplicate shipments and multi-month backlogs the old system produced.
• —Created a native intake flow to replace the third-party form, cutting redundant customer service questions and adding the validation, error handling, and data structuring the old form lacked.
• —Built the admin panel the team now runs the product on, covering order tracking, search, and status management, plus secure customer document uploads.
• —Rebuilt and optimized a PDF generator to fulfill hardware requirements and improve customer dissatisfaction.

Los Angeles, CA

• —Co-founded an AI-powered car-buying advisor that educates buyers from research through deal analysis, aggregating data on nearly every vehicle on the market and distilling it into what each buyer actually needs.
• —Built the product end to end on Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Stripe, and the Claude API, covering architecture, data model, authentication, and subscription billing.
• —Designed the schema and user-profiling system behind the recommendation engine. A guided intake builds a buyer profile, then batched API calls evaluate live listings on price, history, and market trends, returning matches with reasoning.
• —Wrote a streaming chat assistant that walks buyers through car-buying topics it hasn't covered yet, with guardrails that keep it on-topic and resistant to off-domain misuse.

Los Angeles, CA

• —Designed and built several ecommerce platforms for a brick-and-mortar vintage clothing brand, covering storefront, catalog, search and filtering, cart, and Stripe checkout on a photo-heavy mobile-first catalog.
• —Set up a real-time inventory sync between the in-store Clover POS and the web catalog, running every 10 minutes so a sale on either channel updates availability on the other.
• —Maintained an active catalog of thousands of items, handling schema mapping, deduplication, and data integrity across both systems, while owning hosting, deploys, and monitoring.

Los Angeles, CA

• —Co-founded and ran an independent dealership reconditioning and reselling vehicles, applying a mechanical engineering background to scope repairs and performance modifications while running acquisition, pricing, and vendor negotiation.
• —Automated inventory, cost, and margin tracking to replace manual record-keeping, which became the entry point into software engineering.