Peter Harding
Managing Director at PerformIQ Pty Ltd
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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SeniorPeter Harding is a Managing Director and veteran performance engineer with over three decades of experience designing and executing stress, load and capacity testing for large-scale commercial systems. He founded and leads PerformIQ, helping organisations validate hardware, networks and applications by combining commercial tools with bespoke and open-source robots when protocols or architectures demand bespoke solutions. Peter advocates splitting clients into GUI and network layers with clear APIs to enable robust, re-usable test harnesses—a pragmatic approach that delivers significant time and cost savings when introduced early. His background spans UNIX/Open Systems consulting, systems engineering, J2EE deployments and cloud performance work for major Australian institutions, reflecting a rare blend of deep systems knowledge and hands-on tooling. Based in Melbourne, he pairs long-term consulting leadership with practical software tool development and a history of stepping into roles from pre-sales and operations to academic mentoring, showing both technical breadth and an educator’s interest in transferring capability.
14 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (8)
rest7
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golang5
azure5
microsoft4
go3
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Github contributions (5)
peterlharding/PDQ-v5
Feb 2012 - Jul 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 1 push in 9 years 6 months
peterlharding/react-image-demo
Jul 2021 - Oct 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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