Hello!

I am khivi, a technologist with 20+ years of architecting solutions across storage, AI, telecom, fintech, retail, and healthcare. I specialize in helping businesses — from resource-constrained startups to established companies - leverage technology to solve real challenges and scale efficiently.

My cross-industry experience gives me a unique ability to identify opportunities where technology can empower growth, even with limited budgets. I bridge the gap between complex technical solutions and practical business outcomes.

Ready to transform your tech vision into reality? Let's connect


How I add value

Engineering Excellence

I specialize in guiding organizations through strategic architectural decisions across the entire project lifecycle. As businesses evolve, they inevitably face complex trade-offs and evolving requirements. My approach centers on designing technology solutions that scale seamlessly while maintaining cost-effective iteration cycles. This requires deep technical expertise combined with the ability to anticipate when foundational assumptions will shift.

While engineers often pursue cutting-edge technologies and consultants may advocate for large-scale implementations to showcase capabilities, I maintain that customers invest in outcomes, not technology for its own sake. Complexity compounds maintenance challenges over time. My philosophy emphasizes building elegant, streamlined solutions that precisely align with customer objectives and business requirements.

Exeuction Culture

My experience spans developing and implementing robust technology execution cultures, both from greenfield initiatives and within established organizations. I have successfully transformed delivery capabilities within large enterprises by aligning technical strategies with core business objectives and operational realities.

Effective technical solutions require seamless integration across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Business functions. I excel at championing adaptive software development methodologies that respond to project-specific constraints and stakeholder needs. Rather than rigid adherence to processes, I believe in contextual adaptation that fosters genuine collaboration and delivers solutions that reflect comprehensive stakeholder input.

Mentorship

My passion has been to nuture a high-performance culture in companies. My book which you can Buy on Amazon distills my execution strategy.

Currently I am working on a book on technology adaptaion in the AI world.


Philosophy

Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity

Erik Christopher

Delay decisions to last responsible moment

khivi

Build the knowns. Research the unknowns

khivi

Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits

James Clear

There is nothing permanent except change

Heraclitus

I reserve the right to be wrong

khivi

The perfect is the enemy of the good

Voltaire

Consistency over time is trust. There’s no shortcut for either

Jeff Weiner

Journey

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Technology

Machine Learning

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Programming Languages

Basic C/C++JavaPythonPerl Ruby Objective-CPHPJavascriptScala198520269095000510152025

Infrastructure

Ansible Bash Docker Kubernetes Google GCPAmazon AWS198520269095000510152025

Operating Systems

Android FreeBSD IOS Linux OS X Solaris Unix SVR ZX Sinclair 198520269095000510152025

Product Management

Asana Assembla Bugzilla GitHub Notion Jira Basecamp Perforce Sablime Trello Linear 198520269095000510152025

Testimonials

Vinay - Engineer
Amazing mentor. Khivi has helped many of us to shape our careers, towards becoming good developers. He has the notion of challenging engineers, allow them come up with solutions, guide them appropriately
Tate - CTO
Khivi looks beyond the code and beyond the technology to what is most important to a successful startup. Culture. Khivi helps to ensure that the companies he works with have the opportunity to maximize their potential
Brett - VP, Product
Khivi has such a mature, well-rounded perspective on product development and engineering practice. His point-of-view is paradoxically pragmatic yet strategic – allowing teams, roadmaps and architecture to stay flexible and nimble and not over-engineered
Vikram - Founder
Khivi's guidance and mentorship to the young team has been particularly crucial and helped make them significantly better software engineers, write better code and design more scalable and maintainable systems

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Let me help you build your technology. I plan and execute on strategy, scaling and delivery .