Fortune 50 retail · finance · QSR · government-adjacent · SaaS.
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The senior engineer in the room.
I’ve spent a quarter century inside Fortune 50 retail and e-commerce — re-architecting checkout, search, merchandising, and the platforms underneath them at CVS, Dollar General, AutoZone, Toys“R”Us, Deloitte, Hertz.
These days I build the platform I wished I had: CAIA, an AI-native enterprise system where non-coders ship production software on their own infrastructure, and Stolution, giving neighborhood stores Amazon-class capability.
I don’t write code anymore. Every line in both products is written by an AI under my direction. The writing here is the field report.
On enterprise architecture, AI agents, and what actually ships.
The end of microservices, the start of something quieter
After a decade of distributed-by-default, the cost finally came due. Here is what is actually working in 2026.
When the senior engineer in the room is a model
Architecture conversations now happen with a participant who has read every paper, every blog post, and every Stack Overflow answer. Here is how the meetings change.
The quiet cost of low-code
Three years into a major low-code rollout, the bill arrived. It was not the licence.
The non-coder founder’s stack, 2026 edition
A practical, opinionated tour of the tools I use to ship production software without writing code.
The credentials behind the work.
Architecture, cloud, project, service, and agile — not as letters after a name, but as the certifications I leaned on when the conversation in the room needed shared vocabulary.
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Currently
Shipping the MVP of CAIA — the AI-native engineering platform that owns the architecture so a non-coder can own scope. Target: paying customers by Q4 2027.
Quietly rebuilding Stolution in public — a neighborhood-commerce platform built on 22M+ business records.
Covering QCon New York and KubeCon NA in long-form notes this back half of 2026 — reading proceedings, watching recordings, writing what changes. All coverage.
Things I am building, in flight.
CAIA
An autonomous engineering engine that owns architecture decisions while a non-coder operator owns scope. Output is a standard exportable repository on the customer’s own GitHub.
Stolution
A discovery and coordination layer for small businesses that brings Amazon-grade capability to mom-and-pop stores. 22–35M business records across 50 states.
Pokerzeno
A solver-and-coach for live and online poker that explains *why*, not just *what*. Built with my son.
roulette.community
A patient, statistics-first community around a game most communities approach as superstition. Backed by simulators.
Edison Cricket
A booking, scoring, and standings platform for a recreational cricket league in New Jersey.
“Prakash is the architect you call when the system has to be honest about what it is.”
26 categories. A long apprenticeship’s worth of notes.
One careful essay, every other week.
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