Engineering capabilities / Project & stack sheet

Zac Peterson

Cloud · AI · Software

zac@zacp.xyz · San Francisco, CA

linkedin.com/in/zacpete/ · zacp.xyz

Approach

My work connects cloud-native platforms, machine learning delivery, and application engineering. I care about the seams: how code reaches production, how a model becomes a service, and how a team understands what its systems are doing.

Understand the constraint. Build the smallest durable solution. Measure what changed. Leave the team with a system they can own.

Technical capabilities

Cloud & platform engineering

A reliable foundation that helps your team ship—not another platform to babysit.

AWS · Google Cloud · Kubernetes · Terraform · Helm · Argo CD · Flux · Prometheus · Grafana · OpenTelemetry

AI infrastructure & MLOps

Move from an interesting model to a system people can depend on.

Python · Kubernetes · MLflow · Kubeflow · Airflow · Ray · PyTorch · GCP · AWS · Postgres

Software & systems delivery

Close the gap between the architecture and the working product.

Go · Python · TypeScript · Node.js · PostgreSQL · REST APIs · CI/CD · OpenTelemetry

Project themes & stacks

Cloud-native platforms

Reproducible environments and a dependable path from code to production.

Kubernetes · Terraform · AWS · Google Cloud · Argo CD

Machine learning delivery

Connecting experiments, data pipelines, model artifacts, and serving infrastructure.

Python · MLflow · Kubeflow · Airflow · PyTorch

Inference & evaluation

Understanding model serving through latency, throughput, quality, and resource use.

Python · Ray · PyTorch · GPU systems

Engineering automation

Turning repeated work into bounded, reviewable, observable execution.

TypeScript · Node.js · Python · CI/CD

APIs & data pipelines

Clear service interfaces and reliable movement of data between systems.

Go · Python · TypeScript · PostgreSQL · Snowflake

Observable operations

Connecting a user-visible problem to the services and resources behind it.

OpenTelemetry · Prometheus · Grafana · Kubernetes

Ways to work together

Focused consulting, hands-on contracts, and engineering opportunities. Share the technical challenge, scope, and timing.

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Technical glossary: definitions, connected ideas and further reading.

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