About

About Shiv

Principal AI Solutions Architect | Azure · .NET · Agentic Systems. 20+ years delivering mission-critical platforms across fintech, retail, and healthcare — from 40+ microservices powering 20,000+ global Domino's stores to a greenfield mortgage servicing platform enabling 5,000+ loan onboardings in 6 months at UWM. MIT Certified in AI/ML & Data Science.

Skills & Expertise

Backend & Cloud Architecture

C# / .NET CorePythonREST · gRPC · GraphQLKafkaAzure Service BusGCP Pub/SubDDDCQRSEvent SourcingMicroservicesAKSDockerTerraform

AI / ML & Agents

Azure OpenAIAzure AI FoundrySemantic KernelLangChainRAG ArchitectureAI Agents · Tool-CallingPrompt EngineeringAzure MLMLOpsPython (Pandas · NumPy · Scikit-learn)

Azure & Multi-Cloud

AKSAzure FunctionsAPIMEvent Grid · Event HubsAzure SQL · Cosmos DB · RedisAzure Monitor · Log AnalyticsGCP (Pub/Sub · Bucket)AWS (EC2 · S3)FinOps · Hybrid Cloud

Security & Governance

OAuth 2.0 · OIDC · JWTZero Trust ArchitectureEntra ID / AzureADRBACSOC2Azure Key Vault · HashiCorp VaultAPI Governance · ADRs

Frontend

React.js · TypeScriptNext.jsTailwind CSSRedux ToolkitAngularMaterial UIReact Query

DevOps & Observability

GitHub Actions · Azure DevOpsTerraform · IaCDocker · KubernetesCI/CD PipelinesPrometheus · GrafanaSplunk · DynatracePagerDuty

Where I'm Headed

From Architect to CTO

After two decades of building the infrastructure that enterprises run on — event buses, microservices, data pipelines, compliance layers — I'm now in the moment where AI changes everything. Not as hype, but as genuine leverage: the ability to compress months of development into days, to surface insight buried in unstructured data, to make products smarter without adding people.

I'm targeting CTO roles where I can own the technical vision, build the team, and connect AI investment to business outcomes. I believe the next wave of enterprise value creation belongs to organizations that integrate AI deeply — not as a feature, but as a capability woven into every system.

This site is where I think out loud about what that looks like in practice.

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Let's Talk

If you're building something ambitious with AI and need an architect or technical leader — I'd like to hear about it.