Architecture leader. Builder by default.
I design engineering operating models, and then I build them to see if they hold. This site is the trail: the systems, the decisions, and what they mean for leading engineering in a world where humans and agents deliver software together.
What I do
I work at the join between strategy and delivery: architecture, platform engineering, governance, and the operating models that decide how an engineering organisation actually builds. The interesting problem right now is not whether to adopt AI. It is how to redesign the delivery system around agents so the work stays cheap to produce, safe to ship, and possible to reason about a year later.
My bias is toward evidence over opinion. I would rather build the thing, watch it break, and write down what I learned than publish a confident take I have not tested. Most of what is here started as a real project before it became an argument.
Leading the hybrid future
The future of engineering is not people replaced by agents. It is people and agents building together, and someone has to design how that actually works. That is the work I want to lead: the operating models, the governance, and the culture for teams where humans and agents deliver software side by side.
I would rather help shape that world than wait to be handed a seat in it. The title matters less than the mandate: set the direction, build the system that lets a hybrid team do its best work, and stay accountable for what it ships.
About the name
Tekton (τέκτων) is the Greek word for a builder or craftsman. It is the root inside architect, from archi-tekton: the master builder. So The Agentic Tekton is exactly what it says, a master builder for the agentic era.
It also rhymes with Hekton on purpose. Hekton is the personal agentic engineering factory that builds and runs this work. Tekton is the person who designs it. The system and the builder, named to belong together.
Get in touch
For roles, advisory work, speaking, or an argument about YAML: I read everything, and I reply to the things I can be useful on.