Engineering Leadership
What Southwest’s Recovery Taught Me About Resilience in the Age of AI
A reminder about technical debt and how a system can understand and recover when reality moves faster than expected.
Engineering leader building resilient systems and better developer workflows
Personal intro
Hi, I'm Avi.
I lead engineering teams and work across architecture, resilience, and practical AI-enabled software delivery.
I am passionate about building better systems, improving developer workflows, and helping technical organizations move faster without losing judgment, quality, or trust.
Engineering leadership
Leading teams through ambiguity, improving engineering habits, and aligning technical execution with business outcomes.
Architecture and resilience
Designing systems, guardrails, and operational practices that improve reliability, maintainability, and confidence at scale.
AI for developer effectiveness
Exploring practical ways AI can improve software delivery, testing, decision quality, and developer workflows.
About
A Passion for Software Engineering
I’ve spent my career working across enterprise software delivery, engineering leadership, architecture, quality, and resilience. I’m especially interested in how teams can adopt AI thoughtfully without losing technical judgment, trust, or discipline.
The goal of this site is to voice my thoughts and opinions, help people understand what I do, read how I think, and reach out for thoughtful conversations.
Selected writing
"Words without thoughts never to heaven go.” — William Shakespeare
AI Engineering
I Kept Hearing About Jev This Week, Here Is What I Found
A practical look at Jev, System One models, where decision models fit between code and LLMs, and what this means for developers and technology leaders.
AI Engineering
Before You Build an MCP Server: Start With the Capability, Not the Technology
A practical look at prompts, skills, retrieval, tools, MCP, agents, and why the right architecture starts with the capability the system is missing.
Experience snapshot
Senior engineering leader with hands-on experience across architecture, enterprise delivery, software quality, resilience, and modern engineering practices.
Engineering leadershipEnterprise architectureResilience engineeringAI in software deliveryCoaching & mentoring