Zachary Peacock
Technical Director - AI at DigiCert
Spanish Fork, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Peacock is a seasoned technical director and software architect with over 14 years of professional experience and more than 20 years total in software engineering, currently leading AI initiatives at DigiCert to advance secure, production-grade AI and certificate management systems. He blends deep expertise in backend languages (PHP, Java, Kotlin, Go), containerization, and distributed systems with hands-on experience modernizing monoliths into API-driven, highly available services. Zachary is particularly focused on the intersection of AI and security, exploring RAG architectures and protocols like MCP and A2A to enable safe agent-to-agent communication and tool access. He has a track record of shipping customer-facing REST APIs and promoting CI/CD and Kubernetes at scale, while also consulting through his own company on diverse stacks. Based in Spanish Fork, Utah, he enjoys connecting with engineers about practical security challenges in AI — a perspective shaped by long experience in digital trust and production systems.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Multimedia Communication Technology, Bachelors of Science Multimedia Communication Technology at Utah Valley University
Github Skills (46)
cursor10
command-line-utility10
tui9
webservice9
ide9
docker8
ai8
x5098
rest8
caddy8
codex8
claude8
chatgpt8
reverse-proxy7
gemini7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thoom/certlint-api
May 2016 - Jun 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 1 month
apiweb-api
thoom/grand
Jul 2018 - Feb 2024
Random string generator CLI
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 5 years 7 months
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