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Peter Gluck
Principal Software Engineer specializing in scalable, secure multi-platform systems
AuctaneUSCLa Crescenta, CA14 Years ExperiencePrincipal LevelWorks On-Site
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Engineering leader and former CTO/Disney|ABC engineering manager who built white-label mobile app architecture that supported a branded app and successful exit, and later scaled Disney Channel brand app teams across iOS/Android/web and major OTT platforms. Led kid-safety architecture for DisneyNOW (“Junior mode” with PIN) and partnered with product/legal on COPPA compliance, emphasizing maintainable tech choices and strong execution processes.
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Key Strengths
- Defined and executed a white-label mobile app architecture aligned to business strategy; enabled a branded variant that led to a successful exit
- Scaled engineering org from 3 to 11 in-house engineers and ~10 to ~20 offshore developers across multi-platform app portfolio
- Multi-platform delivery leadership across mobile, web, and OTT/CTV ecosystems (Roku, FireTV, AppleTV, Xbox, Chromecast, Kindle)
- Pragmatic technology selection focused on maintainability and broad developer availability (avoids unproven tech)
- Established quality processes: coding standards, regular code reviews, and evolving branching/merging practices
- Strong cross-functional alignment and expectation management between design and engineering to control complexity and timelines
- Designed kid-safety architecture ('Junior mode' with PIN) enabling a single integrated DisneyNOW app while protecting younger audiences
- Experience partnering with product and legal to ensure COPPA/privacy compliance for children's content
Reference Highlights
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- Exceptional leadership ("most capable I have ever seen")
- Strong combination of hard skills and soft skills
- World-class at bringing teams, plans, and software together
- Effective at aligning technology to business outcomes
- Built an engineering team from scratch
- Unifies globally distributed teams
- Makes junior team members feel valued while challenging them
- Balances speed of delivery with system stability
- Keeps egos in check; fosters low-ego culture
- Team-building and culture-building effectiveness
- Calm under pressure; hard to stress
- Healthy perspective; self-worth not tied to project outcomes
- Drives innovation through multi-technology integration
- Delivered scaled, efficient, reliable system connecting 1,000 nonprofits and 400,000 small businesses
- Thoughtful and effective communicator
- Keeps team and stakeholders well informed
- Hands-on technical leader
- Aligns technical decisions with business needs
- Strong architectural decision-making
- Streamlined development and maintenance via tooling choices
- Delivered a new multi-platform product quickly (~6 months)
- High-quality code focus
- Thorough code reviews
- Strong documentation of critical processes
- Successfully drove adoption of process changes despite resistance
- Enabled smooth handoff to offshore maintenance teams
- Reliable under pressure; willing to put in hours to meet deadlines
- Works well both collaboratively and independently
- Trusted to make important decisions and communicate rationale
- Maintains team structure during high-pressure periods (documentation, tickets)
- Early adopter of AI tools; boosted team productivity
- Go-to resource for AI advice
- Contributes detailed insights to product direction discussions
- Innovative; proposed and implemented a low-cost API test platform
- Recognized for hackathon project
- Excellent at aligning technology work to business goals
- Instrumental in driving thin client implementation
- Strong innovator (hackathon contributions)
- Effective at reducing operating and integration costs
- Collaborative leadership style
- Strong mentor to junior engineers
- Calm under pressure
- Takes lead to diagnose and resolve release/build issues
- Delivers results in high-pressure situations
- Improves overall technology approach and product solution
- Very effective leader
- Strong business understanding
- Able to implement technology to meet business needs
- Built and scaled engineering org from a few engineers to three teams
- Delivered results across web, iOS, and Android
- Composed under pressure
- Goal-focused
- Reliable in meeting immovable launch deadlines
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Experience
PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERAuctane, Inc. (Stamps.com) · Jan 2021 – Present
PRESIDENTAppVentures, Inc. · Jan 2017 – Present
MANAGER – SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGDisney | ABC Television Group · Jan 2015 – Jan 2020
SENIOR TECHNICAL ARCHITECTWalt Disney Imagineering · Jan 2012 – Jan 2015
VP OF CORPORATE STRATEGYTrustCentral
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICERApplication Development & Marketing
ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE ARCHITECTLos Angeles County Department of Public Health
SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEERNASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Education
USCmaster, Aerospace Engineering (Astronautics)
California State University, Northridgebachelor, Mathematics (Statistics)
Awards
Skills
Languages
English
Certifications
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)Earned Value Management (EVM)FAA-Certified Pilot
Publications
1 publication
Software engineeringAerospace/space systemsEmbedded and flight softwareTeam leadership in engineering
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