Peter Livesey
Software Engineer at Lockwood Productions LLC
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Livesey is a seasoned software engineer based in Seattle with 12 years of experience and deep expertise in mobile development, particularly iOS. He has led and ship-critical mobile infrastructure at LinkedIn and Superhuman, managed engineering teams at Airbnb, and now builds products and companies through Big Basin Labs and his own Lockwood Productions. As founder of apps like Chess Tactics and ZenDen he blends product intuition with hands-on coding to create software that reduces mental load and delivers real user impact. His background includes open-sourcing core iOS tooling for model consistency and view testing, reflecting a commitment to developer experience and long-lived infrastructure. Comfortable across the full stack, he’s happiest solving practical problems that improve people’s lives and often prefers small, high-leverage projects that scale.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at DETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (162)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
plivesey/ConsistencyManager
May 2016 - Feb 2021
A library that manages consistency of immutable models
Contributions:8 releases, 2 reviews, 43 commits in 4 years 10 months
consistencyimmutablefunctional-programming
plivesey/Network
Jun 2019 - Nov 2021
Contributions:1 review, 7 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 4 months
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