Pete Kaminski

Pete has been building software since 1981. When he started, "the internet" was something academics used. He helped turn it into something your parents use.

He wrote his first professional code at APh Technological Consulting, programming games for the Intellivision console. Then he joined Activision, where he created and co-created games for Commodore 64 and Intellivision — including River Raid, Master of the Lamps, Hacker II, and Aliens. If you owned a game console in the mid-80s, there's a real chance you've played his work.

In the early 1990s he designed NetCruiser at NETCOM — one of the first graphical interfaces for the internet, shipped before most people had heard of a web browser. In 1995 he co-founded Yipes Communications, an early pioneer in carrier Ethernet networking. In 2003 he co-founded Socialtext, one of the first enterprise collaboration platforms, which brought wiki-based collaboration to Fortune 500 companies.

Since then: CTO of HealthRally (social health platform), CTO of Pingpad (real-time team collaboration), senior consulting at Cutter Consortium on Agile and product strategy, and co-founder of YouBots.ai — where he architected a multi-tenant AI SaaS platform with multi-agent orchestration across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini, and shipped context management to end users before anyone was calling it "context engineering."

Pete is a builder who loves teaching people how technology actually works. Fair warning: if you ask him a technical question, prepare for a comprehensive answer. He can't help himself — he just really loves this stuff.

Pete is based in San Diego, where it's always 72 degrees and sunny. Nate is still bitter about this.