--- title: Celebrating Drake Fish, our Newest Beacon Award Recipient description: 8th Light celebrates Lead Engineer Drake Fish as its newest Beacon Award recipient, a peer-nominated honor for embodying company values. Fish built Waggy, an... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/celebrating-drake-fish-our-newest-beacon-award-recipient-h1jncyjve twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Celebrating Drake Fish, our Newest Beacon Award Recipient | daily.dev og:description: 8th Light celebrates Lead Engineer Drake Fish as its newest Beacon Award recipient, a peer-nominated honor for embodying company values. Fish built Waggy, an... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/celebrating-drake-fish-our-newest-beacon-award-recipient-h1jncyjve og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/h1jNcYjVe.png og:image:alt: Celebrating Drake Fish, our Newest Beacon Award Recipient og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Celebrating Drake Fish, our Newest Beacon Award Recipient **[8th Light](https://daily.dev/sources/8thlight)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 8th Light celebrates Lead Engineer Drake Fish as its newest Beacon Award recipient, a peer-nominated honor for embodying company values. Fish built Waggy, an autonomous robot pooper scooper, sharing the process openly in Slack despite lacking prior robotics experience, and became the first at 8th Light to earn Anthropic's Claude Certified Architect credential. He also mentors colleagues and clients at a major pharmaceutical company on AI enablement. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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