I help companies modernize their architecture. They want to talk about Kubernetes. I end up explaining why Kate is burned out at 0.25 FTE across four workstreams.
Technical problems are rarely the actual problems.
I’m a recovering CTO who still writes the code. TilinTheCloud is an independent practice where modernization, team redesign, and GenAI adoption run as one program, not three. I call it the Three-Body Program: architecture, teams, and AI capability, moving together. Most enterprises run them as three separate tracks, and the gaps between them are where the program stalls. This newsletter is where I think out loud about closing those gaps.
What to expect (roughly once a week)
How modernization, team design, and AI actually move together, and what breaks when you sequence them instead.
Field notes from someone still in the terminal, not just the boardroom. Every claim anchored to something hands-on, with a number on the outcome.
The occasional satirical interview with a clueless executive who genuinely believes “platform engineering” is something you can purchase.
Twenty years from statistician to CTO to hands-on architect. I’ve done this work inside and alongside companies like AWS, Nike, ASML, KLM, and Rabobank.
The common thread? Kindness. Not as a values slide. As an operating principle. You can’t optimize systems while measuring humans in decimal points.
If your architecture is six months ahead of your teams and your GenAI strategy is a deck instead of a system, you’ll feel at home here. Subscribe and let’s talk.
