Architecture that survives the next framework, and the next one after that.
I help teams design systems that hold up in production — cloud & microservices architecture, agentic AI and AI-led automation, and the AI-native SDLC. 19+ years across .NET, SQL and the cloud, applied to the questions that actually matter: what's the real problem, where does complexity belong, and what breaks at scale.
Four practices, one underlying discipline.
Each of these is an area I've been paid to lead — not a list of technologies I've touched. The through-line is logic-first thinking: surface tech changes, the reasoning doesn't.
Enterprise & cloud architecture
Reviews, designs and second opinions for teams betting meaningful money on a technology choice. I look at where complexity actually belongs, what will break at scale and at handover, and which of your "must-haves" are really constraints inherited from an earlier decade. Strong fit for platform rewrites, acquisition integrations and cloud transitions.
Agentic AI & AI-led automation
Designing agentic systems that do real work inside real enterprises — not demos. The hard parts are rarely the model: they're tool boundaries, state, guardrails, retries and the handover between agent and human. I help teams ship automation that's trusted by operators and understood by auditors, built on top of the cloud architecture you already have.
AI-native SDLC
Embedding AI into the software development lifecycle without breaking the lifecycle. Code generation, review, testing and operational knowledge graphs — evaluated for where they genuinely compound engineering leverage and where they introduce silent debt. I help technical leaders separate the signal from the keynote noise.
Secure microservices & modernisation
19+ years of pattern-matching on the specific way enterprise .NET monoliths, SQL Server estates and legacy analytics stacks turn into event-driven, cloud-native platforms. I've led .NET Framework → .NET Core, SQL Server → Aurora / Snowflake, on-prem → AWS migrations across multiple clients. Security and production-readiness audits are part of the same practice.
Recent engagements, in outline.
Architecture reviews, agentic-AI design, data modernisation, secure microservices. Year to year, the surface varies; the underlying discipline doesn't.
Parikrama — a pilgrim's atlas of Hindu temples
A one-person exploration of heritage, data design and what's possible when a single builder uses the full modern stack. Temples are curated and cross-referenced against open data; users can filter by deity, sampradaya and architectural style, and plan their own yatra.
Agentic AI platform for back-office operations
Architected a multi-agent platform that plugs into an existing microservices estate — specialised agents, orchestration, audit trail, event-driven tool layer. Controller → Service → Repository boundaries extended cleanly for AI.
Natural-language query layer over business data
Designed the intent / entity / retrieval pipeline for a natural-language interface sitting on top of an existing business-services stack. Multi-provider AI, conversation state, feedback loop, cost telemetry — all within established microservice boundaries.
AI-native SDLC pilot for a product engineering org
Designed the evaluation framework, tool selection, guardrails and rollout plan for embedding AI across code generation, review and test automation — without compromising the existing release process or security posture.
Legacy SQL Server estate → Aurora & Snowflake
Led the migration of a mixed reporting and OLTP estate onto Aurora Postgres and Snowflake. Rewrote the SSRS / PowerBI layer against the new warehouse without a reporting blackout, using slice-by-slice cutover.
Notes from the field, thinking in public.
Architecture decisions explained in plain prose. Written mostly for engineers and technical leaders deciding where to spend complexity.
A pilgrim's atlas of Hindu temples.
Two-thousand-plus temples, curated against open data, on a quiet static-first interactive map. Filter by deity, sampradaya, pilgrim circuit or architectural style; save your own yatra. A personal project, and a working sandbox for the same patterns I bring to client work.
Open the atlas ↗Small tools, given away
Free, browser-first utilities I built for myself and kept public — JWT decoder, LLM token estimator, cron explainer, SQL formatter, JSON formatter, and a SQL query helper. No ads, no accounts, nothing leaves your browser.
Let's trade notes.
I'm always up for good conversations about architecture, agentic AI and the AI-native SDLC. Knowledge exchange, a reference, a second opinion, or just a thoughtful connection — all welcome. If you write, I reply within a day or two.