Peter C. Bennett
Forward-Deployed AI Engineer · Principal-Level Enterprise Delivery
peter@petercbennett.com Fort Lauderdale, FL Remote / travel GitHub ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Profile
Principal-level AI/software engineer. Two recent years applying the forward-deployed discipline to an independent, production-scale agentic platform build, backed by more than a decade of earlier customer-embedded technical delivery: entering ambiguous enterprise environments, working directly with executives and engineers, defining the problem, designing the solution, and staying hands-on through production.
Current agentic-AI work spans deterministic workflows, RAG, structured outputs, evaluation, human-review gates, Python/TypeScript, and AWS. Enterprise delivery includes acquisition integrations, platforms tied to $50M+ in recurring revenue, more than 90% AWS cost reduction, 99.97% uptime, and systems supporting $200M+ in contract volume.
Core expertise
- Forward-deployed delivery
- Customer discovery · ambiguous problem decomposition · solution architecture · hands-on implementation · enterprise integration · executive and engineering stakeholders · production ownership
- Agentic AI and LLM systems
- LangGraph · LangChain · OpenAI · Anthropic Claude · RAG / pgvector · structured outputs · human review · evaluation · observability
- Software and integration
- Python (Django, FastAPI) · TypeScript / Node.js · REST and GraphQL APIs · hexagonal architecture · PostgreSQL / pgvector · Redis · event-driven systems
- Cloud and platform
- AWS (EC2, EKS, Lambda, S3, SQS) · Kubernetes · Docker · GitHub Actions / CI/CD · production reliability · cloud cost optimization
Experience
LeadsON, Principal AI Engineer
Built and personally engineered agentic AI and automation systems, applying enterprise disciplines across architecture, implementation, testing, observability, resilience, and deployment.
- Architected a production-oriented platform with 16 specialized agents, 25+ BullMQ queues, and an 18-state deterministic workflow; models handled generation and classification while code retained state, scheduling, approvals, and authoritative actions.
- Engineered multi-provider LLM routing, RAG / pgvector grounding, structured outputs, circuit breakers, human approval gates, and observability; validated across 1,700+ tests and 196 requirements.
- Published CaseFlow, a public reference implementation of controlled agentic engineering: a 21-node LangGraph workflow with four bounded AI tasks, three human-review gates, and a 30-case / 11-metric regression suite with provider adapters.
Local Workspace MCP, Published open-source MCP server
- Designed and shipped a read-oriented MCP server: 23 tools behind operator-declared roots, lexical and canonical-realpath containment, and default-deny access; one named task_run path over an operator-written allowlist, documented as real user-level execution, not a sandbox.
- Released as local-workspace-mcp@0.2.0 on npm and listed in the official MCP Registry after four rounds of independent adversarial review; published threat model and a 276-test suite in the public repository.
TTAC Publishing, Director of Technology
Led technology strategy and hands-on delivery for a high-volume digital publishing and ecommerce network, translating operational needs into cloud, commerce, and automation systems.
- Reduced recurring AWS spend by more than 90% (about $15–20K/month to about $1K/month) through modernization, governance, Spot capacity, managed services, and CloudFront redesign.
- Unified WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify, and Laravel APIs through an AWS event-driven pipeline; sustained 99.97% uptime across three properties, including repeated 1M+ viewer launches.
- Migrated CI/CD from Puppet to GitHub Actions, tripling release cadence; launched three Shopify Hydrogen / Next.js storefronts with subscription analytics.
Hearst Magazines, Senior Web Application / API Developer
Senior hands-on architect for Hearst Digital properties, repeatedly selected for work requiring discovery, executive communication, architecture, integration, and implementation.
- Embedded with acquired-company executives and engineers as hands-on technical integration lead for a $10M+ social-platform acquisition; assessed the production environment, defined the integration path, and implemented integrations.
- Architected REST APIs supporting subscription, content, and identity systems tied to $50M+ recurring revenue and 1M+ monthly visitors.
- Modernized Perl/Mason systems to Python/Django and built reusable publishing infrastructure for JSON rendering, OAuth, content and identity integration, and automated testing.
BDP International, Senior Technical Lead, Enterprise Logistics Integration
Customer-side technical implementation lead for enterprise deployment of G-Log Transportation Management System.
- Translated global logistics workflows into production integrations, APIs, and ETL pipelines supporting $200M+ in transportation rate contracts.
- Stayed involved from discovery and workflow definition through enterprise architecture, integration, and production rollout.
Earlier enterprise experience
- Tech USA / Accugenix, bioinformatics portal architecture for 3,000+ pharmaceutical clients; enabled a $25M+ new revenue line.
- Conversion Services / Bristol-Myers Squibb, HR compensation and executive stock-planning systems for 17,000+ executives globally.
- Advanced Systems Consulting, delivered systems for GE Corporate, GE Information Services, and Equitable Resources.