Kevin Peterson
Professional Experience
Senior Applied AI Engineer
Stackblitz, Remote, September 2025 - Present
- Applied AI Engineer for bolt.new, a large scale consumer coding agent. Work on context engineering, quality, and evaluation systems to improve reliability and end-to-end task success.
Senior AI Engineer
Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN, May 2025 - September 2025
- Lead engineer for an internal GenAI automation team; shipped agentic workflow automations using LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic), RAG with vector search, and agent orchestration frameworks/protocols (Agents SDK, MCP), with ownership of context engineering and retrieval quality.
Senior Software Engineer, Digital Products
Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN, Sep 2022 - May 2025
- Lead engineer for fluidgenius.net (8,000+ customers); owned end-to-end feature delivery and an AWS backend re-architecture cutting p95 latency 5×. Shipped LLM-driven product capabilities supporting growth initiatives, standardized CI/CD and engineering practices across 4 codebases, led/mentored a 10-person team, and represented the product at conferences.
Cybersecurity Analyst II (Software Engineer)
Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN, Dec 2021 - Sep 2022
- Primary engineer for a custom IGA platform automated access management across across 5+ enterprise applications and 80+ production instances, replacing a third-party tool and saving $50K/year. Presented features and rollout/process changes to 6+ departments and IT leadership (including CIO).
Cybersecurity Analyst I (Software Engineer)
Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN, Dec 2019 - Dec 2021
- Developed and launched access review platform used by 3,000+ employees, eliminating $20K/year in vendor costs.
Systems Analyst Intern
Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN, May 2019 - Dec 2019
Education
Master of Science in Analytics
Georgia Institute of Technology
4.0 GPA
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Middle Tennessee State University
3.9 GPA
Skills & Other
Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect