Felipe Tavares Architecting AI ambition into enterprise reality.
Enterprise architecture and AI strategy, built to survive contact with the real business.
18 years turning Architecture, AI, Data, Platform Engineering and Product Management strategies into shipped value.
Domains of expertise
Domains
Where the depth actually is
Twelve areas of practice, collapsed into the domains that matter most. AI and enterprise architecture lead; everything else compounds around them.
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AI & Agentic Engineering
Built the business case for 8-figure AI and data value in commodity trading, shipping AI-augmented architecture platforms hands-on.
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Enterprise & Business Architecture
Leads a central architecture function: authored the Architecture Guiding Principles and architect behaviour model across a federated global org.
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Data Architecture & Engineering
Architected the future-state of an 8-figure enterprise data platform (lakehouse, streaming, API-first), now underpinning trading domains.
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Cloud & Platform Architecture
Drives a Platform-as-a-Product operating model on AWS: golden paths, IaC and Policy as Code, a Terraform pipeline catalogue.
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Integration Architecture
Defined the enterprise future-state event-driven, API-led integration architecture and leads its adoption across global trading programs.
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Digital Strategy & IT Strategy
Sets technology strategy for complex, regulated domains, including a multi-vendor buy-versus-build assessment for commodity trading systems.
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Data Management & Analytics
Delivered data products credited with a double-digit-million revenue uplift, plus multi-million-dollar cost reductions across the product-data estate.
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Software & Agentic Engineering
Builds hands-on: an in-house AI-augmented architecture platform that auto-assembles context for delivery teams and AI coding assistants.
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SAP Delivery, Strategy & Architecture
Led SAP S/4HANA business architecture and order-to-cash transformations, cutting the cost of a heavily customized system by half.
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Portfolio & Program Management
Management-team member on a 9-figure cloud migration program, with functional direction across a large architecture and engineering organization.
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Product Management & Agile Delivery
SCRUM and SAFe practitioner, CSPO and CSM certified. Brought agile delivery discipline to ERP/treasury and architecture operating models.
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Technology Leadership & Org Design
Directly led multiple engineering, architecture and product teams, each with its own lead, and hundreds more through a federated, matrix operating model.
Featured projects
Projects
Proof, not just claims
Working systems, the decisions behind them, and what they deliver. Proof over claims.
Latest writing
Writing
Latest writing
Articles and papers on architecture, AI, and leading through a global matrix.
Stale architecture docs used to be embarrassing. Now agents act on them.
Standards and decision records as runtime context for AI agents: parseable, current and true, or ignored.
Jul 14, 2026 · 8 min read
What is your architecture team worth?
A measurement model for enablement: paved-road adoption, velocity delta, risk retired, decision speed.
Jul 7, 2026 · 9 min read
Why I Built This Site the Way I Did
The reasoning behind felipetavares.dev: a $0 constraint, a framework-free core, one sanctioned model call, and a site built for machine readers as much as human ones.
Jul 5, 2026 · 6 min read
Speaking & Media
Speaking & Media
Taking the argument on stage
Talks, panels, and papers, and where to catch the next one live.
Operating record
The work behind the writing
Where this writing comes from: the operating record of the work itself.
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Directly led multiple engineering, architecture and product teams, each with its own lead
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Led hundreds of people across teams through a matrix operating model
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18 years across trading, banking, consulting and manufacturing industries
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Moved architecture from gatekeeping to orchestrator and hands-on delivery
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