Enterprise AI Recovery Architect | Founder, Advanced Software Enterprises Inc
July 2023: I documented why 80% of enterprise AI initiatives would fail. Not because of AI—because of architecture.
August 2025: MIT proved me right at 95%.
While vendors sold magic, I wrote about recovery. Read the original prediction →
I map your exact next steps — from crisis to working AI in production.
- Put out the fire by knowing WHY;
- Recover your journey by knowing HOW;
- Fix your architecture — AI stays.
30+ years building systems that survive their first users - and serve their last user well.
Current work:
- Corporate AI recovery consulting;
- Modernizing 25-year defense systems for AI/AO;
- Building Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations;
- Designing and writing enterprise code daily since 1992.
- 11 enterprise transformations (60% avg cost reduction);
- 23+ startup bootstraps across 5 markets;
- 300+ engineers coached (the scene champion model);
- 50+ distributed systems imagined, built, and fielded;
- 99.99% uptime at scale 2000 till present.
- Architecture: Domain-Driven Design, Event-Driven Architecture, Microservices, CQRS
- Languages: Kotlin, Scala, Java, Python, Go, Swift, ObjC, C++, C
- Infrastructure: Bare-metal, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure, Akka, Kafka, Spring Boot
- AI/ML: LLM integration, MCP, Keras/TensorFlow/JAX/PyTorch, Pandas, Scikit-learn
- MLOps/MLInfa: MATILDA (ASE), Google Vertex AI, MLFlow, Hugging Face Transformers
- Practices: XP (Extreme Programming), TDD, EventStorming, Clean Code/Architecture
Advanced Software Enterprises Inc helps executives recover from failed AI implementations:
- $997 Diagnostic: 28-point assessment, 2 business days;
- $15K to $25K Assessment: Complete architectural discovery, 2-3 weeks;
- $50K to $350K Recovery: We execute the fix, 8-12 weeks.
- Masterclass: DDD & Event-Driven Architecture
- Book: DDD as effectively taught by coaching
- Methodology: Team coaching framework v7.1 published
- Community: Mímis Gildi | Gervi Héra Vitr | Gotham Village
Homeschooling and mentoring the next generation of engineers, including my son Captain Lugaru.
"Architecture is trust. Code is conversation. Velocity comes from clarity."
Supporting Ukraine: Ukrainian-American supporting defense through Razom for Ukraine.