Technologist · Architect · Educator

Architecting systems that think, flow & scale.

I'm Tanay — for 22 years I've designed enterprise platforms with Camunda, Java and, more recently, AI. Here I share what I've learned about building systems that last, and leading the people who build them.

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22+Years in enterprise tech
6Essays published
4Courses in the studio
What I work on

Four disciplines, one craft.

Great platforms sit at the intersection of clear processes, solid engineering, intelligent automation — and the leadership to bring people along.

Process Orchestration

Designing durable, observable business processes with Camunda — from first BPMN sketch to platforms running at scale.

  • Camunda 7 & 8
  • BPMN
  • DMN
  • Zeebe

Enterprise Java

Two decades of Java — from J2EE to virtual threads. Clean, resilient services that teams can actually maintain.

  • Java 21+
  • Spring
  • Microservices
  • Kafka

Applied AI

Bringing LLMs and agents into the enterprise responsibly — grounded in data, guarded by process, measured by outcomes.

  • Agents
  • RAG
  • LLM Ops
  • Guardrails

Leadership

Growing architects, aligning technology with strategy, and making the hard calls that keep teams moving fast.

  • Strategy
  • Mentoring
  • Decision-making
Latest writing

Essays from the field.

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Learn with me

Courses built from real projects.

No toy examples. Every course distils patterns I've used in production — and the mistakes I made getting there.

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Thoughts

Short notes, long experience.

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Building software since 2005
About

Twenty-two years of turning complexity into clarity.

I'm a technologist and enterprise architect. My career has spanned the arc of modern enterprise software — from monolithic Java EE to cloud-native microservices, from hand-rolled workflow to Camunda-powered orchestration, and now to AI agents that work alongside people.

Along the way I've led teams, designed platforms, and mentored engineers into architects. This site is where I write down what I've learned, so others can go further, faster.

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  1. Make the process visible

    If a workflow matters to the business, it deserves a model the business can read.

  2. Choose reversible decisions

    Speed comes from being able to undo, not from being certain.

  3. Put AI on a leash, not a pedestal

    Intelligence is most valuable when it is grounded, guarded and auditable.

  4. Grow people, not just systems

    The architecture outlives the code only if the team understands why.

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