Ben Peeri
AI Solutions Architect · 2x Founder-CEO · TEDx Speaker
McKinney / Dallas-Fort Worth, TX·ben@peeri.us·linkedin.com/in/benpeeri·github.com/cryptomonkey2020
Summary
AI leader who builds the program and ships the product. I stand up AI-native organizations where people and AI agents work side by side, proven as the AI innovation lead inside a Fortune 150 enterprise and as a two-time founder-CEO. I turn ambiguous business problems into funded AI initiatives, win executive buy-in with clear ROI, and stay hands-on enough to architect the solution and pressure-test the build.
Signature impact
- Built the AI innovation program at a Fortune 150 enterprise: 14 end-to-end AI solutions plus reusable blueprints and a private, in-tenant multi-model GenAI platform. Drove $5M+ in cost avoidance and ~45% faster delivery.
- Founded and scaled two AI-native companies from zero: Memory Gardens (16-person team across 5 countries; iOS + Android shipped in 12 months) and Chicken Butt Jerky / Meat Bot (patent-pending food-tech, launched in under 90 days on ~$25K).
- 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: 14 solutions, 131 model deployments, 254K+ indexed chunks, ~45 MCP tools.
- Led an enterprise API-security evaluation (a 140-requirement scoring matrix) and briefed the C-suite on vendor strategy.
- Mentor engineers and business partners; represent the org to an industry connected-vehicle consortium.
Chicken Butt Jerky · Meat Bot · Founder, CEO & AI/Tech Lead
Jul 2025 - Present- Designed, built, and deployed the first production robot into a USDA-inspected co-packer, running daily since 2026.
- Launched the brand in under 90 days on ~$25K bootstrapped, in an industry with zero prior experience.
- Filed 2 U.S. provisional patents (patent-pending); trademark applications in prosecution.
- Run marketing, operations, accounting, and CRM through a 14-agent AI workforce.
Sensay · Head of Security (Fractional)
Jul 2024 - Dec 2025- Stood up core security programs, including a global bug-bounty and company-wide identity and access management.
- Partnered with leadership and engineering to raise the company's security posture and audit readiness.
Memory Gardens · Founder & CEO
Jan 2022 - Sep 2023- Led a 16-person globally distributed team across 5 countries (US, Nigeria, Pakistan, Ukraine, Canada).
- 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 · 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-generated 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 (~125,000 views).
- Patent-pending inventor: two U.S. provisional patents, AI-designed food-production robotics.
- Computer Science coursework, Collin College. 20+ professional certifications. Largely self-taught.
- 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)