Peter Hussey
Board Member at LabKey Software
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Hussey is a seasoned software leader and founder with over three decades of experience spanning IBM, Microsoft, startup founding, and board-level governance. He co-founded LabKey and Westside (now dataweb.com), bringing deep expertise in relational databases—especially Microsoft SQL Server—and practical experience building web-based data platforms and developer tools. At Microsoft he helped evolve SQL Server from a licensed product into a core, enterprise-grade database and led high-profile customer integrations such as adapting SAP to SQL Server. His career blends product management, developer advocacy, and hands-on architectural design, with a long-standing interest in making complex data systems approachable for ISVs and researchers. Based in Seattle, he now serves on the LabKey board after retiring from day-to-day operations, and has repeatedly translated enterprise-level database thinking into successful startup products for biomedical and web data use cases.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
A.B., Physics, A.B., Physics at Dartmouth CollegeMBA, MBA at Harvard Business School
German
Github Skills (2)
api8
java8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (3)
LabKey/labkey-api-r
Jan 2010 - Mar 2011
LabKey API wrapper for R
Contributions:15 commits in 1 year 2 months
labkey-client-apiapilabkeyapi-wrapper
LabKey/platform
May 2008 - Jan 2011
A set of modules that provide core functionality for LabKey Server
Contributions:8 commits in 2 years 9 months
javalabkey-module-containerlabkey
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