Peter Westwood

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Role
Head of Product at Akismet
Location
Golden, CO, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
General Business & ManagementView LinkedIn profile

About Peter Westwood

Experienced Software Engineer and Engineering Director with a pragmatic approach to solving large and small problems in isolated and distributed systems.Comfortable working in a variety of languages including C#, C++, C, PHP.Development experience in the web, desktop application and embedded firmware spaces.Always interested in new languages and technologies. Often investigating new technologies to see how they could be applied in my current role.Specialties: PHP, mysql, scalability, test driven development, security, anti-spam, WordPress, mentoring, thinking outside the box

Experience

  1. Head of Product

    Akismet

    Dec 2023 — Present · Denver, CO, US

    Product Management for the Akismet Service.

Education

  • University of Southampton

    MEng, Software Engineering

    1998 — 2002

Skills

  • Ajax
  • C
  • Web 2.0
  • Xhtml
  • Css
  • Subversion
  • Bacnet
  • Jquery
  • Mysql
  • Distributed Systems
  • Web Applications
  • Javascript
  • Uml
  • Html 5
  • Xml
  • Unit Testing
  • C#
  • Php
  • Open Source
  • Security
  • Visual Basic
  • Ibm Rational Rhapsody
  • Test Driven Development
  • Wordpress
  • Tdd
  • Web Development
  • C++

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