About Me

Enterprise Architect

I am an Enterprise Architect with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. I’ve worked mostly in development, but have experience with technical architecture, Azure, AWS, sysadmin, a bit of network engineering, and so on. My interests today are around modern cloud native architecture, both from an infrastructure perspective, and from an app architecture one.

Cloud Native

Cloud Native is not a buzzword. It’s a collection of technology choices that significantly improve the resilience, maintainability, performance, and scalability of an application. I’ve spent many months researching many SaaS and PaaS services that can replace traditional IaaS architecture. Our organization has largely lifted and shifted on-premises infrastructure to cloud providers, but we are only now starting to look at replacing traditional VMs with more specialized services.

AI

While far from an expert in AI, I have spent a fair amount of time learning about many of the publicly available AIs and their strengths and weaknesses. I enjoy thinking about AI ethics and regulation, and look for a world where AI is a capable servant, and humans are well-able to make best use of them.