Derrick Pedranti — Senior Full-Stack & AI Systems Engineer
With more than 20 years of experience architecting and delivering production software systems, Derrick Pedranti is a Senior Full-Stack & AI Systems Engineer known for building scalable SaaS platforms, distributed microservices, and secure AI-powered applications for enterprise and federal environments. Derrick Pedranti leads initiatives end-to-end — from defining system architecture and data models to implementing backend services, integrating cloud infrastructure, building modern front-end applications, establishing CI/CD automation, and ensuring performance, observability, and production reliability.
Derrick Pedranti's technical expertise spans React, TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js, Python, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB, and AWS services including Kubernetes (EKS) and managed cloud offerings. He specializes in designing and deploying retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, semantic retrieval pipelines, vector database integrations, and agentic AI workflows. Derrick Pedranti has built intelligent AI applications leveraging large language models through AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, and Google Cloud Vertex AI, delivering secure, high-concurrency systems for major corporations and federal agencies.
While Derrick Pedranti has experience translating complex requirements into intuitive user experiences, his primary focus is engineering robust, maintainable systems that integrate front-end applications with scalable backend microservices and cloud-native infrastructure. He emphasizes clean architecture, SOLID principles, performance optimization, and cost-aware cloud design to ensure long-term system reliability.
In his current role as Senior Full-Stack Engineer & Technical Lead at Accenture Federal Services, Derrick Pedranti designs and builds multimodal RAG and agentic AI platforms supporting federal customers and internal teams. His work includes Python (FastAPI) microservices, React and TypeScript front-end systems, semantic search pipelines, Redis-based caching strategies, PostgreSQL performance optimization, and token-level LLM streaming for responsive AI chat applications. Derrick Pedranti also integrates Neo4j and Cypher queries for advanced data analysis and supports enterprise-grade deployments across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments.
In addition to his professional work, Derrick shares insights on how artificial intelligence is reshaping careers, education, and long-term job stability through his AI and Your Future initiative. The site explores future-proof jobs in the age of AI, highlighting careers that combine technical skills, human judgment, and adaptability — and offering practical guidance for students, professionals, and parents navigating an AI-driven workforce. Learn more at derrickjpedranti.org