Gaurav Sharma

Solution Architect & Engineering Leader

A versatile, mature engineer with eighteen-plus years spanning financial services, payments, data platforms, and industrial IoT — equally at home in a CXO discovery workshop, a whiteboard design session, and a production incident. I design cloud-native, event-driven systems that hold up at real scale and take them end to end, with delivery across the US, UK, and Japan.

How I work

• Architecture should execute, not just advise. A model that can't become requirements, code, and a review gate is an opinion, not a design.
• Cost is a quality attribute. Build-vs-buy, FinOps, and TCO belong in the architecture, not the invoice.
• **The non-functionals *are* the design. Scalability, availability, fault tolerance, and observability decide whether a system survives production.
• Domain before framework. Clear bounded contexts age better than clever technology.

Portfolio & case studies　·　CV　·　LinkedIn**

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Tools & field guides for enterprise architects

Most architecture guidance stops at the slide. I tend to build the opposite — small, open tools and concrete guides that turn principles into something you can run, score, and ship. Each one came out of a real gap in enterprise delivery: discovery, requirements, non-functionals, governance, observability, and presales.

ArchpilotRequirement-to-design pipeline
NFR AdvisorQuality-attribute advisor
EA SkillArchitecture diagrams as code

CADEXPresales deal qualification
Presales PlaybookTechnical-selling field manual
pgvitalsPostgreSQL diagnostics toolkit

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Selected work, by theme

Architecture-as-code & governance

ProjectWhat it is
archpilot ⭐8An agentic pipeline that takes a single requirement and produces deep discovery, EARS-compliant requirements, an HLD, an LLD per service, and a scored guardrail review — all enforced by 36 enterprise rule files.demo
archpilot-reviewer ⭐2A GitHub Action that runs architecture governance on every pull request, flagging drift from your standards before it reaches main.—
archpilot-cliA command-line scaffolder that generates enterprise-architecture documents from the Archpilot standards library so teams start consistent.—
enterprise-architecture-skill ⭐1A Claude Code skill that produces C4 + Structurizr, ArchiMate, TOGAF ADM, and arc42 artifacts — diagrams and decision records authored as code.demo
nfr-advisorTakes a system's context, ranks the non-functional requirements that apply, surfaces the trade-offs between them, generates testable scenarios, and exports the result as code.demo
cadexAn eight-axis risk model for presales: qualify a deal, match an engagement strategy, and pass a 42-point quality gate before committing.demo

Applied AI & machine learning

ProjectWhat it is
iiot-predictive-maintenanceNotebook-based predictive maintenance on real datasets (AI4I 2020, NASA C-MAPSS): remaining-useful-life prediction, failure classification, and autoencoder anomaly detection in PyTorch.—
iiot-ai-ragTwo retrieval patterns built from scratch — document RAG over manuals and FMEA, and case-based RAG over sensor signatures — the GenAI companion to the predictive-maintenance work.—

Reference architectures & blueprints

ProjectWhat it is
iiot-reference-architectureAn end-to-end reference architecture for industrial and enterprise IoT — edge to cloud, OT–IT data contracts, ingestion, storage, and analytics — drawn from delivering platforms at 100K-device scale.demo
cloud-native-observabilityA vendor-neutral catalog of what to measure and alert on across every layer, with SLO guidance and an operating methodology you can adopt as-is.—

Writing & playbooks

ProjectWhat it is
presales-playbookThe missing manual for technical sellers — turning system architecture into commercial value through discovery, deal orchestration, and architecture defense.read
cloud-native-observabilityA reference catalog meant to be read end-to-end before you instrument a single service.—

Developer tools & utilities

ProjectWhat it is
viewer2pdfA Node + Playwright CLI that captures canvas- and image-based document viewers — the kind that block download and print — into a clean PDF.—
gs-themeA zero-dependency, zero-build GitHub Pages landing template: dark hero, sticky nav, five accent presets.—

Built for family & learning

ProjectWhat it is
Little PlayersA hub of 23 free, colorful STEM-based learning games for kids across eight categories — simple, hands-on, and free to play.open
Chiranjeevis EternalAn interactive-fiction game set in Hindu mythology — the immortal Chiranjeevis stir as the Kali Yuga wanes. Built on the Ink narrative engine with a custom cinematic VFX layer.open
Kya BanaonA Hindu vegetarian family meal planner — breakfast, lunch, and dinner ideas with sattvic, kids-friendly, and seasonal filters.open

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Tech I work with

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