PMPeter McKee
Hello, I'm Peter McKee.
Welcome 👋 I'm a hands-on technical leader architecting and shipping production AI systems—autonomous agent platforms, multi-tenant voice AI with RAG, and provider-agnostic LLM tooling. Three decades of engineering across IC, architect, and director-level roles at Docker, JFrog, AssemblyAI, and Sonar.
I'm currently working with,
- Rust + Tokio
- TypeScript / Next.js
- Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama
- PostgreSQL + pgvector
- VAPI
- Node.js
Applications will start or are already using AI technology to augment or totally replace knowledgebases.
Forbes
On how AI is reshaping the developer knowledge stack.
As developers adopt AI for productivity benefits, there's a required responsibility to gut-check what it produces.
InfoWorld
On developer responsibility in the age of generative AI.
Gen-AI coding assistants are good at suggesting code, but not at stepping back and reflecting on the code and reasoning over its effectiveness.
Techzine
On the limits of AI coding assistants.
ShrikeDB
Feb 2026 - Present • Open Source
A Redis-compatible in-memory database in Rust implementing ~95 commands across 6 data-type families over the RESP wire protocol. Designed around a shared-nothing, multi-shard execution model with a Dash-style extendible hash table that avoids stop-the-world rehashes and keeps tail latency flat under load.
Voice Assistant
2025 • Ronin AI
A multi-tenant SaaS platform that lets businesses stand up an AI phone receptionist on their own VAPI account in minutes—answering inbound calls, booking appointments against the company's live calendar, and grounding responses in a per-tenant knowledge base with chunked ingestion and pgvector embeddings.
Multi-Surface Agent Platform
2025 • Ronin AI
A full-stack autonomous AI agent platform built as a Node.js monorepo (CLI + Next.js web dashboard + reusable core), with a provider-agnostic adapter layer for Anthropic, OpenAI, and Ollama, plus a tool registry, planner, context manager, and Redis-backed memory for long-running, tool-using agent jobs.
AI Agent Framework
2025 • Ronin AI
A modular Node.js framework for autonomous planning agents that decompose a goal, generate a plan, execute via tools, evaluate results, and replan—built spec-first across a 6-module architecture with explicit dependency rules, JSON-Schema-validated tool I/O, and human-approval gating.
How to Get Started with Docker
2020 · DockerCon / YouTube
DockerCon talk and companion YouTube tutorial—an introduction to Docker fundamentals that has crossed 430K views and become a canonical starting point for new container engineers.
Continuous Previews with Infrastructure as Code
2021 · Pulumi
Session on using Pulumi and IaC to spin up per-PR preview environments for sharing and reviewing application changes.
Docker for Python Developers — Talk Python to Me
2021 · Talk Python to Me, Episode 308
Podcast appearance walking Python developers through containerization patterns and how Docker fits into a modern Python workflow.
Leveraging AI for Secure DevOps — Test Guild
Test Guild Podcast
Podcast conversation on bringing AI into the DevOps loop without giving up on security or code quality.
Say 'No' to 'NoOps': Why We Can't Afford to Let AI Run Wild
DevOps.com
An argument against the 'AI takes over Ops' narrative and a case for keeping humans in the loop on production systems.
Bad Code Stalls Developer Velocity
The New Stack
On the real cost of letting code quality slide—why velocity dies in the codebase before it dies on the roadmap.
#CleanCodeTips: Unlock Your Coding Potential
Sonar
Series of practical clean-code habits for individual contributors, written during my time leading DevRel at Sonar.
Getting Started with Docker Using Node.js — Part 1
Docker Blog
Hands-on tutorial introducing Node.js developers to containerization, published on the official Docker blog.
How to Use the NGINX Docker Official Image
Docker Blog
Guide to the NGINX Docker Official Image—how to configure it, when to extend it, and how to ship it to production.
Peter McKee
Hi there ✌️ nice to meet you! I'm a hands-on technical leader based out of Round Rock, Texas with three decades of engineering experience spanning IC, architect, and director-level roles at Docker, JFrog, AssemblyAI, and Sonar.
These days I architect and ship production AI systems through my consultancy Ronin AI—autonomous agent platforms, multi-tenant voice AI with RAG, and provider-agnostic LLM tooling. I combine engineering depth with clear technical direction and a strong bias for building.
When I'm not heads-down in Rust or TypeScript, you'll find me hacking on ShrikeDB, my open-source Redis-compatible in-memory database written in Rust.
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