Congratulations to Rani Zilpelwar, the recipient of 8th Light’s Quarterly Beacon Award, a peer-nominated honor that celebrates team members who shine light on our core values.Rani is a Software Delivery Lead with over a decade of experience building ...

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Two senior engineers at 8th Light received the Beacon Award for transforming a fragmented experimentation platform at a major enterprise. Pierce Edmiston (Principal Engineer) and Hugh Sato (Principal Designer) collaborated to reduce deployment time from three weeks to same-day execution, with plans for a 15-minute SLA. Their work combined technical rigor with human-centered design, turning a cumbersome system into a strategic asset that now drives product decisions. The transformation emphasized building trust through honesty and clarity while making complex workflows usable and reliable.

Celebrating our Beacon: Rani Zipelwar!