Principal Cloud & DevOps Consultant

Peter Doherty is a Principal Cloud & DevOps Consultant who recently helped a VFX company streamline their AWS Deadline Cloud setup, resulting in significant time and cost savings. He offers expertise in optimizing cloud render setups, including utilizing Mac M-series hardware for render jobs. Peter runs a micro-consultancy, 21st Century Alchemy, serving clients across various industries, with a strong preference for creative tech, experiential, museums, and architecture. He has worked with major players like Fake Love, Deeplocal, Hush, and ESI/NBBJ on ambitious projects such as the Meta Store and Force Awakens red carpet. His client portfolio also includes startups (video platforms, medtech, manufacturing) and traditional media companies (Bleacher Report, Conde Nast, MediaStorm). Peter is particularly enthusiastic about DuckDB, actively writing blog posts on the topic, and specializes in structuring unstructured data, exploring historical documents, and creating dashboards for logs.