--- title: "Celebrating Drake Fish, our Newest Beacon Award Recipient" url: https://daily.dev/posts/celebrating-drake-fish-our-newest-beacon-award-recipient-h1jncyjve source_url: https://8thlight.com/insights/celebrating-our-beacon-drake-fish type: article source: "8th Light" published: 2026-08-21T13:43:32.225Z updated: 2026-08-21T13:53:11.714Z tags: ["career", "claude", "anthropic"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: 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. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Celebrating our Beacon: Rani Zipelwar\!](https://daily.dev/posts/celebrating-our-beacon-rani-zipelwar--j7ea7q19l) · 8th Light · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Congrats to Team Nimrods - 2nd globally in O'Reilly AI…](https://daily.dev/posts/congrats-to-team-nimrods---2nd-globally-in-o-reilly-ai--0aqtcwqd6) · 8th Light · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#claude](https://daily.dev/tags/claude), [#anthropic](https://daily.dev/tags/anthropic) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/celebrating-drake-fish-our-newest-beacon-award-recipient-h1jncyjve)