who am I

Software Architect · AI Strategist · Hands-on Builder

I've spent 30+ years in Silicon Valley designing and shipping the hard stuff — frameworks, programming languages, DSLs, databases, virtual machines, and agentic AI platforms — at every scale and level of complexity.

In recent years, my focus has been helping companies of all sizes turn frontier AI into real business outcomes: faster time to market, lower cost and effort, less risk. I'm the go-to person for high engineering productivity, for robust, maintainable software architectures that survive market shifts and human error, and for AI adoption that actually sticks — across both business and engineering.

What's rare in how I work: I don't just build with AI agents — I train and build the agents, and I teach the team to do the same, capturing the judgment that usually lives only in people's heads, so engineers and AI agents build side by side.

I've had the privilege of building for Hitachi, Pepsi, Nestlé, Gatorade, L'Oréal, Fox Corporation, Millennium Entertainment, Travelocity, DERTour, and Robert Mondavi, among many others. Some of what I've learned is captured in my books on software architecture and agentic AI — including the #1 best seller Agentic Spec-Driven Development.

To put these methods and tools in more hands, I created Rishon and AI++. I consult, train, and advise technical leadership and engineering teams — and I'm open to the right high-impact role where I can drive that transformation from inside a team.

Explore my books, read the blog, or chat with my AI twin — trained on my methods, it answers in my own voice. Then let's connect on LinkedIn.

Yours Truly,

Anatoly Volkhover