Peter Locke
Fractional CTO Software Architect at Delta-X Research
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Locke is a seasoned fractional CTO and software architect with over 25 years of hands-on engineering and leadership experience, currently modernizing SaaS platforms and teams. He has scaled teams from early startups to 500+ people, co-founded and led Giftbit through product pivots to a resilient, API-first rewards platform, and shaped engineering culture and architecture at Certn and other growth-stage companies. Known for bridging business and technology, he emphasizes customer empathy, measurable outcomes, and people-first practices while introducing AI-assisted development and modern tooling. Peter combines deep technical judgment—codebase and security health assessments, SRE and architecture oversight—with a proven track record of mentoring leaders and reducing technical debt. He actively embeds social and environmental impact, equity, and inclusion into his leadership approach. Based in Victoria, BC, he balances his technical life with a passion for ultra trail running, off-grid backpacking and other rugged outdoor pursuits.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Software Engineering at University of VictoriaMachine Learning (Online) Computer Software Engineering, Machine Learning (Online) Computer Software Engineering at Stanford University
English, French
Github Skills (26)
grails-plugin8
reaction4
groovy4
aws4
grails3
oms3
jekyll3
amazon3
amazon-web-services3
sms2
plugin2
mms2
geoip2
factor2
fastest2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
plocke/arduino-fastest
Feb 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 11 months
gamefastestreaction
plocke/arduino-candyslide
Oct 2020 - Nov 2023
Contributions:17 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years
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