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 (124)
json-data10
testing10
spring-security10
maven10
extensible10
eclipse10
jar10
starlark10
intellij-plugin10
scalable10
eclipse-ide10
build-system10
vscode-extension10
java10
bazel-rules10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
salesforce/bazel-eclipse
Nov 2019 - Dec 2022
This repo holds two IDE projects. One is the Eclipse Feature for developing Bazel projects in Eclipse. The Bazel Eclipse Feature supports importing, building, and testing Java projects that are built using the Bazel build system. The other is the Bazel Java Language Server, which is a build integration for IDEs such as VS Code.
Contributions:18 releases, 63 reviews, 345 commits in 3 years 1 month
developingjava-testingjava-projectseclipselanguage-java
salesforce/rules_spring
Dec 2017 - Sep 2022
Bazel rule for building Spring Boot apps as a deployable jar
Contributions:35 releases, 29 reviews, 186 commits in 4 years 10 months
spring-bootdeployablebazelrulespring
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