SARATOGA SPRINGS, UT, November 09, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Miriah Peterson has been recognized for achievement in data engineering.

Ms. Peterson has distinguished herself as an expert in data engineering, artificial intelligence data systems, context engineering, and data privacy and governance. Her career is marked by a series of influential roles and entrepreneurial ventures that reflect both technical mastery and a commitment to advancing the field.

In 2026, Ms. Peterson co-founded Haikei Labs, where she serves as chief executive officer. Her days span the full range of building a company: she writes code, manages the artificial intelligence agents that build software, and develops the company's infrastructure and products. She also meets with customers to gather feedback, explores sales opportunities, and pitches to prospective investors. Beyond that, she creates marketing content and blog posts, speaks at industry events, and runs product experiments in pursuit of product-market fit.

Haikei Labs serves regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, education, and government, with a focus on tracking where data lives, who accesses it, and how it is used at every stage. The company already has one design partner and several free-tier customers. Its name came out of an artificial intelligence brainstorming session, which settled on a word meaning "background" and inspired the slogan "the background for intelligent action." Ms. Peterson co-founded the company with a partner who serves as chief technology officer.

Since 2024, Ms. Peterson has been recognized as a Google Developer Expert in Salt Lake County. She is also a founding engineer at SoyPete Tech in Salt Lake City beginning in 2023. Additionally, she co-founded the Forge Utah Foundation in Draper in 2019, where she continues to lead monthly technology events and educational initiatives.

From 2025 to 2026, Ms. Peterson served as a staff data engineer at SchoolAI in Lehi. She previously served as senior data engineer at Agility in Draper from 2024 to 2025. Between 2022 and 2025, she worked as an online instructor for O'Reilly Media, publishing software courses and leading workshops that contributed to technology education.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Peterson worked as a data operations engineer at MX in Lehi from 2023 to 2024 and as a member of the technical staff at Tailscale from 2022 to 2023. At Weave HQ in Lehi, she advanced from software engineer II from 2019 to 2021 to senior data reliability engineer between 2021 and 2022.

Before these roles, Ms. Peterson was an associate engineer at Nav Inc. in Draper from 2018 to 2019. At Brigham Young University, she worked as a student computer technician in 2015 and as a research assistant from 2015 to 2017. She began her career as a bar tech at Simply Mac, an Apple Specialist, from 2014 to 2015.

Ms. Peterson's academic foundation is rooted in her Bachelor of Science in physics from Brigham Young University, which she completed in 2017. Although her degree was not directly in software engineering or computer science, mentorship played a pivotal role in shaping her career path. Guided by mentors who helped her identify essential skills and practical applications, she developed expertise through hands-on building and problem-solving rather than formal coursework in software development. This approach influenced her transition into data engineering after graduation and informed her work across startups spanning fintech, cybersecurity, and education technology.

Throughout her professional journey, Ms. Peterson has been recognized for her achievements with several honors. She was named a Rising Star by the Women Tech Council and appeared on the AI Utah 100 for two consecutive years as well as the AI Women's Power List. She also received the Grow with Google Challenge Scholarship from Udacity in 2018. Equally meaningful to Ms. Peterson is the community she has fostered through technical events and mentorship programs — watching participants grow from students into leaders who contribute back to the industry.

Ms. Peterson's civic involvement includes active participation with Women Who Go Utah and Machine Learning Utah Meetup. Through these organizations and her nonprofit work with Forge Utah Foundation, she continues to support professional development and community engagement within the technology sector.

An accomplished author and educator, Ms. Peterson's publications include "Production Go: Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Memory Management," "Go Web Development in 3 Weeks," and "Introduction to Go Programming," all published by O'Reilly Media. She has also authored software courses for Boot.dev.

Born in West Jordan, Ms. Peterson enjoys building Legos, walking her two dogs, working out, running a home lab for artificial intelligence experimentation, and co-hosting a local artificial intelligence podcast with friends who share her passion for running models on home hardware.

Looking ahead, Ms. Peterson aims to grow Haikei Labs into a successful provider of tools to protect sovereign data while using her platform to advocate for data privacy and artificial intelligence literacy. She remains committed to expanding mentorship efforts through her nonprofit work while helping consumers and businesses regain autonomy over their personal information within an evolving technological landscape.

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