Ben Peeri
AI Solutions Architect · Serial Founder-CEO · TEDx Speaker
McKinney / Dallas-Fort Worth, TX·ben@peeri.us·linkedin.com/in/benpeeri·github.com/cryptomonkey2020
Summary
Hands-on AI leader who turns ambiguous business problems into governed systems, funded programs, and shipped products. I design AI operating models where specialist agents research, build, and review while people retain consequential decisions. That approach now spans a Fortune 150 enterprise, two separately operated founder businesses, and a food-production robot working at a USDA-inspected co-packer.
Signature impact
- Architected a private, in-tenant GenAI platform supporting 14 enterprise AI solutions and reusable blueprints. A network-outage analysis system delivered $5M+ in cost avoidance and ~45% faster delivery.
- Built a governed research department around six parallel evidence lanes, independent review, adversarial challenge, and human release gates; its first internal pilot supported 16/16 sampled claims and caught two material errors before release.
- Founded and scaled Memory Gardens, Chicken Butt Jerky LLC, and Meat Bot. CBJ launched in under 90 days on about $25K; Meat Bot now operates separately, with the first Meat Bot production unit working at a USDA co-packer since April 2026.
- Led a $5.2M enterprise mobility and security program at DTCC, translating architecture into ROI-anchored business cases that won C-suite funding.
- TEDx speaker (~125,000 views); former VP, Enterprise Cloud Solution Architecture, JPMorgan Chase.
Experience
Enterprise Mobility · Lead AI Solutions Architect, R&D Innovation
Sep 2023 - Present- Delivered $5M+ cost avoidance and ~45% faster delivery through AI-agent automation for network-outage analysis.
- Architected a private, in-tenant Azure GenAI platform supporting 14 end-to-end solutions and reusable blueprints.
- Built a governed research department with intake, six parallel specialist lanes, production, independent assessment and adversarial review, and human release gates.
- In its first internal pilot, independent review supported 16 of 16 sampled claims and intercepted two material errors before publication.
- Led an enterprise API-security evaluation (a 140-requirement scoring matrix) and briefed the C-suite on vendor strategy.
Meat Bot · Founder, CEO & AI/Tech Lead
Jul 2025 - Present- Designed, built, and deployed the first Meat Bot production unit at a USDA-inspected co-packer, operating there since April 2026.
- Productized the system across eight workstreams: firmware, motion control, OTA, fleet cloud, operator dashboard, hardware, documentation, and web.
- Filed two U.S. provisional patent applications for the robotics work (patent-pending).
- Built separate governed AI organizations for engineering delivery and evidence-led sales research.
Chicken Butt Jerky LLC · Founder, CEO & AI/Tech Lead
Jul 2025 - Present- Launched the brand in under 90 days on ~$25K bootstrapped, in an industry with zero prior experience.
- Sold ~4,000 units DTC and built a ~41-store pre-committed retail pipeline (KeHE/UNFI).
- Built Hermes as a self-hosted multi-agent operating system for back-office work and business integrations.
Sensay · Head of Security (Fractional)
Jul 2024 - Dec 2025Memory Gardens · Founder & CEO
Jan 2022 - Sep 2023- Led a 16-person globally distributed team across 5 countries.
- During a cash crunch, used AI to backfill roles after layoffs, the spark for the human + AI-agent workforce model I run today.
- Reached ~5,000 installs in early market validation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. · Vice President, Enterprise Cloud Solution Architecture
Nov 2020 - Aug 2021- Set cloud integration and transformation direction across business lines on Google Cloud and AWS; shaped the blockchain department's infrastructure and firm-wide reusable multi-cloud blueprints, IAM guardrails, and SRE frameworks.
KPMG US · Associate Director, Public Cloud Platforms
Jul 2018 - Nov 2020- Delivered turn-key multi-cloud (Azure, GCP, AWS) environments as the resident GCP expert for Fortune 500 engagements; directed a globally distributed cloud-engineering team, driving client CapEx-to-OpEx transitions.
DTCC · Associate Director & Sr. Infrastructure Architect
Nov 2013 - Jul 2018- Led a $5.2M enterprise mobility and security program that unlocked global work-from-anywhere; set architecture standards and drove cross-functional IT and business delivery.
Earlier: AdMint · Fractional CTO · TalentCapture · Board Advisor · Maple Finance · DevOps Tech Lead · Check Point · Team Lead, Diamond Engineers (Verizon, T-Mobile, Nordstrom, Tim Brasil) · Epsilon · Sr. Network Engineer · Retalix
Skills
GenAI & Agents
LLMs & prompt engineering · Agentic & multi-agent systems · Governed AI companies (boards + gates) · RAG (vector / hybrid / semantic) · Model Context Protocol (MCP) · Azure AI Foundry / OpenAI · Anthropic Claude · LangChain · AutoGen · Langflow · LiteLLM · Fine-tuning & evals · Voice AI (STT / TTS) · Vision & edge AI · AI for robotics · digital twins · AI-assisted CAD
Cloud & Platform
Azure (primary) · AWS · GCP · Container Apps · Kubernetes · Docker · Zero-trust / private AI · Private endpoints · VNet · Entra ID · Key Vault · managed identity · Cosmos DB · PostgreSQL / pgvector · Blob · Terraform · Bicep · GitHub Actions · Cloudflare · Tailscale
Build & Ship
Python · FastAPI · TypeScript · Node.js · React · Next.js · SvelteKit · Solidity · smart contracts · Bash · SQL · ESP32 / embedded firmware · CI/CD & GitOps · Infrastructure as Code
Lead & Advise
AI strategy & transformation · AI center of excellence stand-up · Hybrid human + AI-agent team design · Executive advisory & storytelling · Program & portfolio management · Vendor evaluation & build-vs-buy · GTM · P&L · board advisory · Mentorship & next-gen leadership
Recognition, education & certifications
- TEDx speaker, TEDxHartford 2023, The Illusion of Memory: Can We Truly Digitize Existence? (~125,000 views).
- Patent-pending inventor: two U.S. provisional patent applications for food-production robotics.
- Computer Science coursework, Collin College. 20+ professional certifications. Largely self-taught.
- Credentials earned across the career (some now expired): Stanford Machine Learning Specialization (Andrew Ng) · NVIDIA: Deploying RAG Pipelines for Production at Scale (2025) · Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate · Microsoft: Build Trustworthy AI on Azure, Copilot Studio, Security Copilot · Azure Solutions Architect Expert · AWS Solutions Architect Associate + Advanced Networking · GCP Professional Cloud Architect / Network / Security · Certified Blockchain Architect + Ethereum / Solidity suite · ITIL v3
Languages
English (native / bilingual) · Hebrew (native / bilingual)