Thoughts on enterprise architecture, AI, and building in regulated industries.
Traditional EA governance is broken. Approval gates slow teams down without preventing the problems they're designed to catch. It's time for a new model: governance embedded in the development workflow, automated and invisible until needed.
The enterprise SaaS market is splitting in two: AI-native platforms that deliver exponential value, and legacy SaaS struggling to justify their pricing. I call the latter category 'PennySaaS'—software that will be worth pennies on the dollar within five years.
I'm a Principal Enterprise Architect at Takeda Pharmaceuticals with over 16 years in technology. I lead EA coverage for the Global Portfolio Division spanning 70+ countries, working at the intersection of enterprise strategy and the AI/agentic technology wave.
What makes me different: I still code. I build PoCs. I ship tools. I've been building chatbots and AI assistants since 2015. All my content is 100% human-authored.