Peter Laird
Chief Technology Officer at Self-employed
Littleton, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Laird is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with nearly three decades of hands-on software and engineering leadership experience spanning systems-level C/C++ work to modern blockchain stacks like Solidity and Rust. He combines deep backend engineering chops with proven technical strategy—driving test-driven quality, robust CI/CD, and operational excellence that transformed legacy codebases into highly available, well-tested platforms. Comfortable leading distributed teams long before remote became commonplace, he balances pragmatic process with developer autonomy to consistently ship production software. Peter also brings a business-oriented lens to technology, advising on tokenomics, M&A due diligence, roadmaps, and capital positioning for web3 ventures. Currently splitting his time between a CTO role at Split.social, advising clients as an independent developer, and contributing Rust and CI expertise to blockchain projects, he’s as comfortable writing low-level code as he is aligning engineering with commercial outcomes. An unusually fast learner of new languages and stacks, he has recently been ramping up in Solidity and Rust to bridge traditional backend reliability with decentralized systems.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
UMBC
Github Skills (13)
writers8
health8
hyphenation7
blockchain6
holochain6
ethereum6
erc11556
solidity4
decentralized-finance3
truth3
protobuf3
erc202
smart-contracts2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
plaird523/solidity-bdd
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
neodaoist/partywithray-proof-of-membership
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:6 reviews, 12 PRs, 26 pushes in 23 days
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