Founder & Principal Architect at Ezell Applied Intelligence (2026-01 – Present)
- Active Platform Development — Engineered a 'no_std' Rust reference implementation for 'The Citadel Protocol', an open integration standard anchoring autonomous AI agents to Hardware Roots of Trust (Intel TDX).
- Enterprise Migration Tooling — Actively developing proprietary transpiler utilities and assessment tooling to automate and de-risk migrating complex enterprise integrations from webMethods.io (iPaaS) to IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration (IWHI) Flow Anywhere runtimes.
- Strategic Thought Leadership — Authored reference architectures defining integration models for ISO 42001 compliance, including work on fusing ledger-based reasoning with hardware roots of trust that was featured by DZone and referenced by Economist Impact, Read Replica, and academic research.
- Enterprise Readiness — Expanded expertise in deterministic agentic workflows and zero-trust security ecosystems to prepare for next-generation enterprise integration challenges, bridging experimental AI governance with applied corporate architecture.
Developer Evangelist & Technical Strategist at IBM (2024-07 – 2026-01)
- Technical Sales Enablement — Supported pre-sales solution architects (BTS) by engineering custom reference assemblies and providing architectural validation to unblock and accelerate complex enterprise deals, directly contributing to over $2M in revenue.
- Community Leadership — Authored technical deep-dives for the IBM TechXchange community on integration patterns, upskilling external developers on bridging legacy application logic with cloud architectures.
- Architectural Strategy — Developed the '5-Layer Agent Mesh' model, defining transport protocols for verifiable Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication to advance the shift toward secure enterprise orchestration.
- Partner Enablement — Facilitated architectural workshops for enterprise accounts (UPS, Medtronic), advising leadership on 'Shadow AI' risks and deploying the Strangler Fig pattern for secure platform modernization.
Senior Principal Architect & Technical Evangelist at Software AG (2016-03 – 2024-06)
- Legacy-to-Cloud Transformation — Designed a dynamic metadata-driven routing architecture for a major electronics manufacturer, enabling zero-downtime monolith-to-SaaS migration using the Strangler Fig pattern.
- Executive Escalation Lead — Mobilized as the primary technical authority for 'Red Accounts', rescuing jeopardized renewals by diagnosing critical stability failures that stalled Tier-1 support.
- Performance Engineering — Resolved critical production outage for a major global logistics provider by leading the RCA and performing low-level JVM forensics (heap dump analysis, GC tuning) stabilizing throughput of the shipment processing platform during peak loads.
- Secure Systems Design — Architected, led development, and oversaw operations of a managed, cloud-hosted AS2 platform for Google, onboarding 84 trading partners within 9 months.
- Migration Automation — Developed official Pre-Upgrade and Cloud Migration accelerators, automating the detection of incompatibilities, significantly de-risking complex version upgrades.
- Cloud Integration — Engineered a custom Google Pub/Sub adapter to enable bidirectional backend integration, bridging legacy core systems with BigQuery for real-time analytics.
Global Consulting Services Delivery Director at Software AG (2014-02 – 2016-02)
- Executive Leadership — Directed the ANZ consulting practice, achieving over 115% of the annual profitability target by optimizing a mixed on-shore/off-shore engagement model of 35+ resources.
- Hands-On Security Implementation — Unblocked critical KYC and credit reporting integrations for a financial institution by coding custom JCE encryption services and configuring complex WS-Security and SAML/LDAP policies.
- Performance Optimization — Led a performance task force to optimize online banking interfaces, eliminating timeouts and ensuring strict sub-second SLA compliance during high-throughput transaction windows.
Director, Competency Center / Practice Manager at Software AG (2009-09 – 2014-01)
- Practice Leadership — Established and rapidly scaled the regional integration practice from fewer than 10 to over 90 engineers and technical consultants within three years.
- Distributed Product Engineering — Directed cross-functional, geographically dispersed teams co-engineering mission-critical production platforms alongside customer resources, shipping high-throughput code for major financial, manufacturing, retail, and logistics providers.
- Solution Architecture — Proposed, scoped, and architected one of the largest BPM and SOA implementations to date, successfully supporting over 4,000 concurrent users.
- Talent & Revenue Generation — Created an internship program with a 100% conversion rate and generated ZAR 274,000 in unplanned revenue by monetizing internal training programs.
Senior Principal Consultant / Manager of Training Development at webMethods, Inc. / Software AG (2000-01 – 2009-08)
- Enterprise Scale Implementation — Architected a 600-store point-of-sale integration pilot (initial target of 4,000+), anchoring a 16-year relationship that scaled to process diverse multi-channel transactions (transit, utility bills, air-time) across over 18,000 global locations.
- Technical Excellence — Deployed worldwide as a founding member of the Global webMethods Competency Center to resolve the toughest customer issues and drive core integration standards and best practices.
- Training Management — Managed a 5-person curriculum development team and personally taught over 80 technical classes with a 9.25/10 instructor rating.
