Principal GenAI Specialist SA, AWS
Scaling AI agents safely, from boardroom to production.
I build enterprise AI strategy at AWS and teach what I learn in public: a new book, a weekly podcast, two free courses and a newsletter.
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- AWS re:Invent
- Grace Hopper
- AI Engineer Summit
- QCon
- ODSC
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The AI Steering Wheel
A unified framework for scaling generative and agentic systems, from the boardroom decision to the deployed system.
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Two free courses: AI agents explained in depth, and LLM inference optimization from first principles.
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Build & Bet
Weekly, with Preethi Ravula. Where a technical decision is a business decision.
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The Agentic Enterprise
Essays, AWS deep dives and peer reviewed research on agents and retrieval.
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The AI Steering Wheel.
A Unified Framework for Scaling Generative and Agentic Systems
Most AI programmes do not fail on the model. They fail in the gap between the boardroom decision and the deployed system. This book closes that gap with three interlocking layers.
- Strategy, deciding what to build, and what to refuse to build.
- Operations, governance, evaluation, and the guardrails that hold under load.
- Engineering, the architecture that carries a decision to production intact.
Co-authored with Dr. Fouad Bousetouane.
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One idea, sixty seconds.
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About
Architecting the future, with care.
I am a Technical AI Leader and Principal Generative AI Solutions Architect at AWS, with 20+ years building AI platforms from scratch and driving enterprise AI strategy. I work directly with customers on their generative AI strategy, from architecture through to production deployment at scale.
My current focus is scaling autonomous AI agents safely and efficiently: stateful, memory driven agents with personalization, AI governance frameworks, and translating current research into systems that survive contact with production.
I co-authored The AI Steering Wheel and wrote Applied Machine Learning and High-Performance Computing on AWS. I co-host Build & Bet with Preethi Ravula, and I teach AI agents and inference optimization in two free courses on the Agentic Enterprise YouTube channel. I live in Seal Beach, California, where I stay honest with long runs along the coast.
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