Leading platform architecture for an AI data-classification product

The Anvil

Kriptos helps enterprises discover and classify sensitive data across sprawling content estates. As the product matured, the platform needed to scale to larger ingestion volumes — and logging and tracing costs ballooned with it. That growth piled on tech debt the way it does at fast-scaling startups.

The Strike

As technical lead and solutions architect, I shaped tech-debt visibility and strategy, and led the logging initiative using only open-source solutions (AWS was ruled out on cost). Concrete moves: laid out a phased migration for logging and built the foundation for it; established CI/CD discipline; and produced artifacts that made tech debt visible and actionable. Worked with a team of 5 across multiple squads.

The Edge

I delivered a phased logging strategy the team could roll out incrementally; the tech-debt analysis was adopted across all squads and pods, breaking the work into manageable slices the team could tackle alongside delivery.