AI Systems Architect
Twenty years architecting systems that hold up under hard constraints: scale, compliance, and trust. SIEM and distributed systems at federal and financial scale; now AI systems and the agents that build them.
Applying two decades of systems architecture to AI: designing and building full-stack AI software, agentic systems, and the tooling and infrastructure-automation platforms around them.
Chief architect for the CFPB SIEM, leading the on-prem-to-AWS migration, Zero-Trust design, SOAR/UBA rollout, and cost optimization.
Principal architect re-platforming the agency's Splunk estate and standing it up as the cybersecurity SIEM.
Splunk architecture and data science across 2,000+ devices: operational-intelligence dashboards and self-healing automation.
Solution architecture across the system lifecycle: a big-data Splunk platform plus MPLS WAN and Juniper QFabric LAN design.
A decade in financial-services infrastructure: MPLS market-data delivery, FIX monitoring, NOC engineering, and data-center administration, culminating in telco architecture across six continents.
Systems architect with 20+ years under one consistent discipline: designing systems that hold up under hard constraints (scale, compliance, and trust). The domain has changed over the years; the architecture practice has not.
Today that means AI systems: full-stack AI software, agentic platforms that operate infrastructure under human-in-the-loop control, and the developer tooling and agents that build other systems. The throughline of the current work is leverage, building the systems that build systems.
The foundation is two decades of SIEM and distributed-systems architecture at federal and financial-sector scale, from Splunk SIEM platforms to multi-cloud and GovCloud infrastructure to market-data networks, plus two books on Splunk published by Packt.
Splunk Architect II, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, CCNP, JNCP. Public Trust clearance. Based in Phoenix, AZ.
Reachable at hello@itrav.ai.
A multi-cloud platform where a team of 20 specialist agents plans and executes infrastructure and application changes. Every plan is gated on human approval, and agents cannot override the security guardrails; violations fail and escalate.
A SaaS platform that spins up secure multi-swarm agent instances to build infrastructure across any major cloud, with built-in cost and time tracking and human-in-the-loop approval gates at every stage.
Builds dependency bundles on connected hosts and ships them across air-gap boundaries to disconnected targets. 25 tools, multi-kind bundles (packages, container images, language trees, Windows installers), one dispatcher, a supply-chain blocklist.
Terraform infrastructure spanning AWS, Azure, and GCP across commercial and government partitions, with per-stack state isolation, SSO-issued temporary credentials, and policy-as-code enforced on every apply.
An AI platform for real-estate investors that I built and operate end to end: multi-LLM retrieval-augmented chat, specialized AI advisors with their own knowledge bases, tiered access control, and full production observability.
A real-time AI voice agent that greets inbound callers, classifies intent, answers from a live knowledge base, and escalates to humans by channel and urgency, with a per-call audit trail.
The Glitch Kingdom: an ecosystem of AI developer tooling, published to npm and a Claude Code plugin marketplace. Public, versioned, installable.
Auto-generates a living project map and human-to-code vocabulary for AI coding assistants.
A self-managing documentation system with hierarchical domains and health scoring.
A unified multi-corpus memory layer for AI agents: semantic search plus a knowledge graph.
Filesystem-as-memory planning for long-running, multi-step AI coding sessions.
Progressive linting that baselines existing violations and blocks only new ones.
An eight-layer memory architecture that fights context rot in AI sessions.
Autonomous multi-iteration task execution and loop orchestration for AI coding agents.
Turns natural-language descriptions into publication-ready SVG diagrams.
A local-embedding semantic-search and knowledge-graph server for markdown.
The shared zero-dependency runtime beneath the whole plugin ecosystem.
Splunk
Splunk
Splunk
Splunk
Splunk
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services
Cisco
Cisco
Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks
Packet Engineering
Book, Packt, 2018
Master system and data administration to become a certified Splunk Architect. A practitioner guide to designing, scaling, and operating Splunk deployments.
Book, Packt, 2016
Designing, implementing, and operating production Splunk: architecture, data hygiene, and dashboarding practices drawn from enterprise deployments.
Design paper
A reference design for a 100 TB/day security data lake on open standards: Cribl, Kafka, Flink, and an Iceberg lake on government-cloud storage, with detection and response built in.
Design paper
A reference design that extracts SIEM index and journal data into open-format columnar files, catalogued for query by any engine, ending the storage-compute coupling that limits SIEM scaling.