Derrick Pedranti — Senior Full Stack Engineer, Technical Lead
Derrick Pedranti is a Senior Full-Stack & AI Systems Engineer and Technical Lead with over 20 years of experience designing and operating production SaaS platforms, distributed microservices, and secure AI-powered applications for enterprise and federal environments. Derrick Pedranti plays a key role across the Agile software development lifecycle — grooming user stories, creating user-centered mockups, architecting scalable systems, developing enterprise-grade applications and RESTful APIs, authoring high-coverage unit tests, implementing CI/CD automation, and ensuring production reliability and performance.
Derrick Pedranti has extensive hands-on experience building modern web and AI-driven systems using React, TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, and AWS Services. His work includes integrating large language models (LLMs), embeddings, semantic retrieval pipelines, and agent workflows into real-time product experiences. Derrick Pedranti has developed responsive, accessible web applications and mobile applications for Fortune 500 companies and federal government agencies.
Derrick Pedranti also brings a strong background in UI/UX engineering and front-end architecture. He designs high-fidelity mockups, wireframes, and interactive prototypes, translating complex technical requirements into intuitive, high-adoption user experiences.
Derrick Pedranti currently works at Accenture Federal Services as a Senior Full-Stack Engineer & Technical Lead. He designs and builds multimodal RAG and agentic AI systems that support enterprise and federal customers. Derrick develops React and TypeScript front-end applications alongside Python (FastAPI) and Node.js backend microservices deployed on AWS (EKS and managed services). His work includes semantic retrieval pipelines, LLM integrations across AWS Bedrock and other cloud providers, Neo4j data visualizations using Cypher, and token-level streaming AI chat functionality with a strong focus on observability, scalability, and clean architecture.
Outside of engineering, Derrick Pedranti enjoys fitness, road trips in his favorite car, and spending time with family. A recreational hiker, Derrick appreciates protecting and enjoying the natural environment.