Now

What I'm doing at the moment

A short page in the now page tradition. I update it about once a quarter.

Naperville, Illinois, USA

Building

The next phase of the agent platform on retail use cases: the multi-agent architecture on Microsoft Agent Framework and Azure AI Foundry, and the knowledge graph beside the ontology.
Azure cloud digitization of the order management and fulfillment services. The services run in containers on AKS behind API Management, and the data moves onto Azure Database for PostgreSQL. I lead the target architecture and the cutover plan, and the engineering teams are delivering the services.
The data platform: Fabric Mirroring as the ingestion backbone, Direct Lake semantic models scoped by business domain, and the cost model that goes with them.

Ontology-grounded agents, on my own time and on synthetic data. The notes are on the learning page.
Small practice experiments on synthetic data, with the right answers planted before anything runs.
Where engineering is heading as coding agents become shared infrastructure. My notes on the engineering harness.

Articles on ontology-grounded agents. They are published here first, then on LinkedIn and Medium.
Kafka questions still arrive from the 2019 series. I answer them.

What a written spec has to contain before a coding agent can be trusted with it, and what the review agent should refuse.
Reference data in the graph, transactions in the systems of record. Where that line moves when agents need to act, not just read.
When a knowledge graph pays for itself, and when the ontology and the semantic layer are enough.
How to measure an engineering team whose drafts are mostly written by agents. The KPIs I set two years ago are due for a rewrite.

Open to meetups and conferences on agent platforms in production, ontologies for agents, the agentic SDLC, and retail order fulfillment. Details and a speaker bio.
Editor at Egen Engineering & Beyond on Medium.
Running the technical workshops and bootcamps for our engineering teams at Egen.