New Cert! AI for Organizational Leaders — Microsoft, 2026

I'm Pete Fraedrich.

A technology leader with 15+ years across software development, developer tooling, reliability, and infrastructure.

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By the numbers

A track record of measurable impact.

Years from entry-level to Vice President

$2.1M

Annual cloud cost savings realized

+30%

Average team velocity improvement

+3%

Average annual uptime improvement

<1%

Team turnover rate

About

Building high-performing teams and durable systems.

I bring experience across multiple verticals — SaaS, fintech, healthcare, and hospitality — but I'm always open to jumping into something new. I'd love the opportunity to dive into HPC, EduTech, and anything relating to SPACE.

Outside of work I'm an avid writer, sharing my thoughts on technology on my Medium blog. I write and record music with Famous For A Century, and I occasionally build guitars.

I reside in Herndon, VA with my amazing wife and three wacky kids.

Based in Herndon, Virginia

Experience 15+ years in technology

Currently Seeking CTO, CIO, VP, Senior Director roles

Ideal Verticals B2B SaaS, HPC, Space, EduTech

I've built and led teams across the full breadth of engineering and operations — from software delivery to the network floor.

Software Development Platform Engineering Cloud (Public / Private) DevOps SRE Security IT NOC

Areas of expertise

Where I create leverage.

People Management

Growing engineers and building teams that ship — with <1% turnover.

Strategic Planning

Turning multi-year vision into roadmaps teams can actually execute.

Systems Architecture

Designing software and infrastructure that scales and stays maintainable.

Developer Experience

Tooling and platforms that make the right thing the easy thing.

Career highlights

Selected work.

                            Cloud Cost OptimizationCendyn
                        
Reduced public cloud expenditure by $1.3M annually through resource
                            rightsizing, decommissioning stale resources, CSP and third-party recommendations,
                            application re-architecture, and realistic data lifecycle policies.

                            Cloud Migration StrategyCendyn
                        
Built and began executing a 5-year consolidation from seven cloud providers to
                                two (AWS & Azure), migrating core AWS infrastructure to Terraform for IaC —
                            targeting a net 5% cost reduction and far more manageable infrastructure.

                            Increased Global Product UptimeCendyn
                        
With a strong focus on reliability, observability, and automation, increased product uptime
                            by 3% annually — roughly 12 additional days of
                            availability each year.

                            Team Process ImprovementAlly Financial
                        
Increased team velocity by 27% by spearheading Agile-inspired processes in
                            the SRE organization, lifting team morale and execution on strategic goals.

                            Incident Duration ReductionAlly Financial
                        
Reduced incident duration by 2% month-over-month through better application
                            observability, production readiness, and post-incident Root Cause Analysis.

                            CI/CD RearchitectureID.me
                        
Cut build and deploy times by 30% and removed manual steps by designing and
                            deploying a net-new CI/CD system focused on containerization, pipeline reusability, and
                            end-to-end automated deploy and rollback.