I'm Peter Klingelhofer

Senior software engineer focused on building the data infrastructure behind climate and clean-energy work. I care most about systems that hold up over time: clean architecture, durable data models, and observability over quick shortcuts.

At Energy Vault I build the backend and data pipelines that quantify the climate impact of grid-scale energy storage: Python ETL across Flyte, Ray, and Trino on Kubernetes; real-time analytics for anomaly detection and forecasting; and tracking of carbon emissions avoided across the deployed portfolio. I work across the stack in TypeScript and Node.

Before software, I earned a Master's in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and spent six years in environmental regulation, assessing the impact of operations on soil, water, and air. Environmental work has been the throughline of my whole career, and it is why I want to keep building for sustainability, renewable energy, and mission-driven organizations.

That path has also made me a strong communicator across audiences. From explaining findings to the public and operators in the field to translating between product, data, and engineering teams today, I am at my best bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Outside of work, I've played saxophone for over two decades and have a long background in digital signal processing, including a piece that aired on NPR.