I design the systems behind decisions — then build enough of them myself to know where they break.
Fifteen years across IT consulting, professional services, and cloud architecture — most recently as Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle, working on internal tooling and cloud-native systems. I'm currently exploring senior architecture and engineering leadership roles.
Cloud architecture across AWS and OCI. Enterprise patterns — microservices, domain-driven design, CQRS, saga, strangler fig — applied to real migrations, not whiteboard exercises. Increasingly, AI systems: agentic pipelines, retrieval-augmented architectures, and where they responsibly fit into existing enterprise stacks.
Working systems rather than slideware — a cloud operations dashboard, a multi-agent job-search pipeline, and a few smaller architecture experiments. Written up in more detail as the writing section below fills in.
Reach me at shobha.v.kada@gmail.com or on LinkedIn.