Robert Peake is a Principal Consultant and seasoned technology executive with 21 years of CIO/CTO-level experience helping organisations scale, recover and modernise through hands-on engineering and clear board-level communication. He builds and motivates high-performing technical teams, has repeatedly run successful interim CTO engagements to stabilise fast-growing businesses, and brings a rare mix of technical, financial and operational accountability. A long-time practitioner and coach of the GTD® productivity system, he pairs personal effectiveness coaching with organisational change to drive measurable outcomes. An active back-end developer and open-source contributor in the WordPress ecosystem, he has improved frameworks and theme integrations to enhance compatibility and robustness. Based in Stony Stratford, England, he combines a creative background in writing and theology with deep practical experience delivering PCI-compliant, high-transaction systems and scalable online communities.
21 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Literature, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Literature at University of California, Berkeley
Doctorate, Spiritual Science, Doctorate, Spiritual Science at Peace Theological Seminary and College of Philosophy
Central Union High School
MFA, Creative Writing, MFA, Creative Writing at Pacific University
Contributions:182 commits, 143 PRs, 95 pushes in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focused on resolving issues and improving the WP MVC framework's functionality. Their contributions included fixing permalink issues, removing strict warnings to ensure compatibility with PHP 5.3 and WP_DEBUG, and enhancing the handling of route loading. The user also addressed compatibility concerns for the command-line tool used with the framework. Furthermore, they improved the admin menu capabilities and added an mvc_extra parameter.
FoundationPress is a WordPress starter theme based on Foundation 6 by Zurb
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focused on enhancing error handling and integrating WooCommerce support within the FoundationPress WordPress theme. They corrected the display of XML error messages on production websites and refined image matching patterns. Furthermore, the user added WooCommerce compatibility by declaring support and implementing recommended wrapper configurations to ensure proper integration with the theme.
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Robert Peake - Principal Consultant at Next Action Associates