Peter Whittaker
Director, Special Projects at Sphyrna Security
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolPeter Whittaker is a seasoned security-focused engineering leader with 11+ years in senior technical and consulting roles and a long career spanning embedded systems, PKI, and enterprise security. As Director of Special Projects at Sphyrna Security he drives next-generation cross-domain systems—unidirectional gateways, adaptive gateways, guards and high-assurance software filters—while shaping product roadmaps and customer priorities for the Verity compliance platform. He blends hands-on product delivery with short-term, high-impact consulting engagements, known for finishing what customers ask for on time and to spec. A founder of DACSAutoMarine and former president of an information security lifecycle consultancy, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with deep operational experience across OEM, government and commercial projects. Based in Ottawa with a BSc in physics and philosophy, he brings uncommon breadth—from low-level network and gateway design to policy, governance and identity management.
11 years of coding experience
Saint John High SchoolB.Sc., Physics, philosophy, B.Sc., Physics, philosophy at Acadia University
french, some spanish, a little arabic, turkish, and german, and some greek.
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Github Skills (70)
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Github contributions (5)
PeterWhittaker/myDotFiles
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:95 commits, 101 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 10 months
PeterWhittaker/myBinFiles
Aug 2020 - Jan 2026
Contributions:85 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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