Felipe Tavares — brain glyph brand mark Felipe Tavares

Architecting AI ambition into enterprise reality.

Enterprise architecture and AI strategy, built to survive contact with the real business.

I architect platforms.

18 years turning Architecture, AI, Data, Platform Engineering and Product Management strategies into shipped value.

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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.

  • AI & Agentic Engineering

    Built the business case for 8-figure AI and data value in commodity trading, shipping AI-augmented architecture platforms hands-on.

  • Enterprise & Business Architecture

    Leads a central architecture function: authored the Architecture Guiding Principles and architect behaviour model across a federated global org.

  • Data Architecture & Engineering

    Architected the future-state of an 8-figure enterprise data platform (lakehouse, streaming, API-first), now underpinning trading domains.

  • Cloud & Platform Architecture

    Drives a Platform-as-a-Product operating model on AWS: golden paths, IaC and Policy as Code, a Terraform pipeline catalogue.

  • Integration Architecture

    Defined the enterprise future-state event-driven, API-led integration architecture and leads its adoption across global trading programs.

  • Digital Strategy & IT Strategy

    Sets technology strategy for complex, regulated domains, including a multi-vendor buy-versus-build assessment for commodity trading systems.

  • 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.

  • Software & Agentic Engineering

    Builds hands-on: an in-house AI-augmented architecture platform that auto-assembles context for delivery teams and AI coding assistants.

  • 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.

  • Portfolio & Program Management

    Management-team member on a 9-figure cloud migration program, with functional direction across a large architecture and engineering organization.

  • Product Management & Agile Delivery

    SCRUM and SAFe practitioner, CSPO and CSM certified. Brought agile delivery discipline to ERP/treasury and architecture operating models.

  • 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.

Selfwright

Incubating

An open-core, local-first personal operating system for career, expertise, influence, and knowledge.

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felipetavares.dev

Active

This site, engineered like a product — not a template.

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Latest writing

Writing

Latest writing

Articles and papers on architecture, AI, and leading through a global matrix.

Why I Built This Site the Way I Did

The reasoning behind felipetavares.dev: Astro islands, hexagonal ports, a $0 stack forced by a hard constraint, and what I'd do differently now that more of it is shipped.

Jul 5, 2026 · 6 min read

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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