AI Delivery Lead • Enterprise Architect • Engineering Leader
I help organizations turn ambitious ideas into production-ready AI platforms, digital products, and scalable engineering organizations — with 20+ years across fintech, banking, and enterprise technology in the UAE and Azerbaijan.
- 🔭 Building production AI systems — RAG, agent orchestration, and LLMOps for regulated industries.
- 🛠️ Maintaining twitter-bootstrap-rails — 4.4k stars, 973 forks, shipped through Bootstrap 2 → 5.
- ✍️ Writing on AI, architecture, and engineering leadership — Substack and Dev.to.
- 🎤 Available for speaking on enterprise AI and engineering leadership.
- 🤝 Open to collaboration on AI and open-source projects.
- Career — 20+ years in fintech & banking across ING, ABB, eBay, Commercial Bank of Dubai, and International Bank of Azerbaijan (13+ organizations).
- Open source — Maintainer of twitter-bootstrap-rails, one of the most-starred Ruby on Rails libraries (4.4k stars, 973 forks) with over a decade of continuous maintenance across major version generations.
- AI today — Production AI systems for regulated industries: 100+ agents in production, plus RAG pipelines, multi-agent orchestration, LLMOps, and real-time fraud scoring on Azure OpenAI + Anthropic.
- Published methods — ai-sdlc (agentic SDLC) and ai-delivery-playbook (enterprise AI delivery aligned to CBUAE and UAE PDPL).
- Leadership — Cross-functional teams of 8–12 engineers; 100% on-time delivery across 12 major releases; release cycles cut from 2 weeks to 2 days; PCI DSS compliance.
- Credentials — 28 certifications including IBM and Anthropic AI credentials, 5 books, 38 AI projects shipped. B.Sc. Electronics & Communication Engineering. English (C2), German (B1).
AI Strategy & Delivery — Enterprise AI transformation · GenAI platforms · RAG & knowledge systems · AI agents · governance & responsible AI · production AI operations
Architecture & Engineering — Cloud-native architecture · distributed systems · API platforms · platform engineering · mobile engineering · DevOps & MLOps
Leadership — Building high-performing teams · engineering coaching · delivery governance · technology strategy · product execution
AI-Led SDLC · agentic-ai · spec-driven-development
An AI-Led software development lifecycle reference — methodology, stack, toolkit, and skills for running an agentic SDLC. A synthesis of AWS AI-DLC, spec-driven governance, and Azure + GitHub agentic implementation.
AI Delivery Playbook · regulated banking · CBUAE · UAE PDPL
The delivery counterpart to ai-sdlc: an enterprise playbook for delivering generative AI in regulated banking, aligned to CBUAE and UAE PDPL requirements. Centralizes governance, architecture, delivery, and operational-readiness documentation, with decision points traceable from use-case approval through release and monitoring.
4.4k stars · 973 forks · Ruby on Rails
Bootstrap integration for Rails, maintained from Bootstrap 2 through Bootstrap 5 — currently at v5.4.0 with full Rails 8 and Propshaft support. Over a decade of continuous releases by the maintainer, and one of the most widely used libraries in the Ruby on Rails ecosystem.
Native AI coding terminal. A framework for building production-grade AI agents, coding assistants, and automation workflows.
A curated list of Enterprise AI, LLMs, GenAI, AI agents, MCP, governance, security, MLOps, and production-ready AI tools.
Local-first AI memory · Python · Obsidian-native
Persistent memory for AI applications. Notes live as plain .md files on disk — readable by agents, editable in Obsidian, owned by you. Retrieval is BM25-ranked full-text search over a SQLite index that can be rebuilt and deleted at any time without losing a byte. No server, no embedding model, no vendor; one dependency.
Long-running reference lists I maintain across the domains I work in.
- awesome-banking — the banking domain: products, payments, security, compliance, architecture, AI, low-code/no-code, and mobile design.
- awesome-bots — a directory of AI bots: assistants, coding agents, web crawlers, and automation workflows.
- awesome-omarchy — an opinionated guide to Omarchy: themes, plugins, dotfiles, hardware, and everything from ISO to ricing.
- awesome-job — the job market: portals, company career pages, remote boards, headhunters, interview prep, CV services, and salary intel across GCC/MENA/EU/US.
Browse the rest of my work at github.com/seyhunak.
- AI Delivery in Regulated Industries — Enterprise AI architecture and governance for banking and fintech.
- Production Multi-Agent Systems — Architecture patterns for enterprise AI at scale.
- Engineering Leadership — Building and scaling high-performing distributed teams.
More talks and appearances on my website.
- AI at Work: Future-Proofing Your Career in the Age of Automation
- Modern Fintech & Banking Transformation: A Comprehensive Guide
- Invisible Colleagues: Redefining Work in the Age of AI
Full list on Substack and Dev.to.
I write about AI, engineering leadership, software architecture, product development, fintech innovation, and the future of work — on Substack and Dev.to.
- Making Any Website Agent-Ready with WebMCP
- Production Multi-Agent Systems: Architecture Patterns for Enterprise AI
- AI Governance in Banking: The Playbook for Safe, Compliant, and Defensible AI
- LLM-as-a-Judge: The Complete Guide to Using AI to Evaluate AI
- The Real Cost of Running LLMs in Production: A Complete Breakdown
Updated daily from my Substack feed.
- Book: AI at Work: Future-Proofing Your Career in the Age of Automation
- Book: Modern Fintech & Banking Transformation: A Comprehensive Guide
- Book: Invisible Colleagues: Redefining Work in the Age of AI
- My Journey: Demystifying Core Software Engineering Concepts
- Crafted AI Framework
Updated daily from Dev.to.