// 01 // ARCHITECTURE
Architecture and AI
Architectures that hold on day one and adapt as the work changes. Lately, a good share of the time has gone to integrating AI and agentic patterns into systems that already work.
Software architect.
Woodworker.
Maker.
Three decades of shipping software. Still in the trenches. Still learning.
// SUYOG KONI HEBBAR · TEXAS
// THE WORKSHOP
I'm Suyog Koni Hebbar. The fundamentals I learnt in Computer Science Engineering have kept me grounded through three decades of work. More recently, a graduate program in AI and machine learning at UT Austin McCombs has helped me keep pace with where the field is going.
The work has covered internet and intranet portals, document and knowledge management, content systems, mobile applications, web and cloud platforms, technology evaluation, and most recently the architecture for AI and agentic systems. Architecture is the thread that runs through it.
This work has spanned the UK, Switzerland, Germany, and the USA. Customers have included M&S, E.ON, Syngenta, UBS, Thomson, Boeing, Baker Hughes, ATP, Toyota, McKesson, and others, going back to Tektronix in Beaverton, Oregon. On the larger multi-vendor programs, working with HP and IBM at Syngenta and Baker Hughes, what carries the day is how well people from different shops collaborate.
I started working with wood in 2019. Some tools are made for certain tasks; the wrong one costs the same in either trade. Both ask you to read the grain or the legacy before you cut. What I know in either, I taught myself: reading, doing, testing, sometimes failing. The next piece is better than the last.
At their best, the two practices feel like the same activity in different materials. They reward patience and punish shortcuts; they ask, in their own languages, what holds and what gives.
I work in both.
// WHERE I HELP
Architecture, cloud, mobile, content.
The work has gathered, over time, around these four. If anything here resembles a problem you are working on, the right next step is probably a conversation.
// 02 // CLOUD
Cloud platforms
Azure and AWS. Microservices, APIs, the platform decisions that determine whether a team ships every day or every quarter. I have authored playbooks and led migrations. The playbook usually matters less than the people who will live in the system after I am gone.
// 03 // MOBILE
Native mobile apps
Native iOS and Android. The part I am proud of is not the awards a few of these have won. It is that they shipped on time and survived contact with users.
// 04 // CONTENT
Content and document systems
Document management, knowledge management, digital asset platforms. The systems that store, version, and surface what a business actually runs on.
// PRINCIPLES
A few things I have come to believe, about wood, and about software, and about how the two are the same thing in different materials. Hover or tap any line to see the parallel.
// THE BENCH
A few pieces from the bench.
Each piece on this bench is made as a gift. It begins with the person it is for, often with a name. The work is then shaped to represent them. The caduceus pen, for a doctor. The gavel, for a high school student. The toy plane, for children, built to be passed on.
What is that, if not the work of a product owner? Knowing the user. Knowing the need. Knowing how it will be used. It is the same in software.
The rest live on Instagram, where I post the work as it happens.
→ instagram.com/koniwoodworks
// HOUSTON · FIFA 2026
Host City Ambassador.
I have been a football fan since 1990. The 2026 World Cup is the largest yet, played across three countries: Mexico, Canada, and the United States. Houston is one of the host cities.
I have been selected as one of more than 60,000 volunteers for the tournament, what FIFA calls the FIFA Family. My role is Host City Ambassador at the Houston Fan Festival. After more than three decades of watching, being on the inside of a World Cup is a quiet privilege.
More about Houston's part in the tournament at fwc26houston.com, and the Houston Fan Festival.
// MY COLLABORATIONS
Something quieter is being made at Nava Ventures. The first piece is Nava Aura, a sensory markdown editor and reader for iPad and iPhone. More are on the way.
→ navaventures.in// SAY HELLO
Drop me a note.
If something here resonated, a problem you are working on, a piece you would like to know more about, a conversation you have been meaning to have, drop me a note. I read everything that comes through, and I usually answer within a few days.