Peter Laird
Architect, In The Office Of Chief Architect at Salesforce
Louisville, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Laird is a seasoned software product architect with 11+ years designing and building large-scale enterprise and SaaS platforms, now shaping Salesforce’s Well Architected guidance as part of the Office of the Chief Architect. He combines hands-on implementation experience—authoring Java and Go microservice runtimes, Bazel monorepo tooling, CI systems, and security-focused supply-chain measures—with strategic customer-facing advisory work. Peter has led architecture and production-operations efforts across companies from BEA/Oracle to SportsLabs and startups, proving adept at both prototype-driven product design and mission-critical production deployments. He is the creator and lead maintainer of notable Bazel integrations (including Bazel Eclipse and rules_spring) and a regular speaker in the Bazel community. Based in Louisville, Colorado, he brings a practitioner’s eye to decision guides and whitepapers that help customer architects make pragmatic tradeoffs. Collected experience across platform, SaaS, and operations gives him an uncommon fluency in turning research into deployable, resilient systems.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Computer Science Engineering, BSE Computer Science Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (96)
testing10
eclipse10
scalable10
eclipse-ide10
build-system10
vscode-extension10
java10
bazel-rules10
google10
vscode10
bazel10
spring-boot10
docker10
spring10
docker-image10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
salesforce/rules_spring
Dec 2017 - Sep 2022
Bazel rule for building Spring Boot apps as a deployable jar
Contributions:35 releases, 34 reviews, 186 commits in 4 years 10 months
bazelspringspring-boot
salesforce/bazel-demo
Mar 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:44 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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