Michael Peterson is a Senior Principal Solutions Architect at Diné Development Corporation and a member of the corporate Strategic Innovations Team, where he supports business development, technical solutioning, proposal responses, and the creation of reusable solution accelerators for federal mission environments. He has more than two decades of experience across software engineering, data engineering, cloud architecture, AI/ML prototyping, health IT modernization, and enterprise application development. In his current role, he developed several DDC solution accelerators, including AI App Factory, Agentic TestOps, and Agentic Desktop. These platforms apply governed AI, human-centered design, requirements traceability, secure agent orchestration, document intelligence, browser automation, and release validation to help teams rapidly deliver secure, accessible, compliant, and mission-aligned applications.
 
Prior to joining DDC’s Strategic Innovations Team, Michael built a career leading complex modernization, data, and application development efforts across federal health, defense, civilian, and commercial environments. His work has consistently focused on transforming legacy systems into modern, scalable, and maintainable platforms; improving the movement and usability of mission data; and applying emerging technologies such as cloud services, automation, machine learning, NLP, graph databases, and large language models to solve operational challenges. He has served as a hands-on architect, technical lead, developer, mentor, and innovation leader, helping teams deliver production systems, migrate legacy capabilities, establish engineering standards, and prototype new approaches that improve mission outcomes. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Arts and Sciences from Rochester Institute of Technology, an Advanced Technical Communication Certificate, multiple Microsoft certifications, and an AWS Certified Developer credential.