I help leaders make
technology decisions they can stand behind.
Enterprise AI. Platforms. Open systems. Sovereignty.
Creator of Agentile, author of Ghost Decisions.
Executive technical advisory with engineering depth and commercial reality.
I work from the CxO room to the engineering floor: connecting executive intent to engineering reality, carrying customer patterns back into product direction, and helping enterprise AI survive beyond the demo.
Amsterdam, NL · She/Her · 🏂
Or grab the book — Ghost Decisions →
> Your AI is great
“Will putting new machines in your software factory be enough or do you need to change the floorplan?”
What happens after initial adoption. That's the question behind my book, Ghost Decisions →
> about
The short
version.
I connect executive strategy, engineering reality, product direction, and the people expected to use the technology. I've led engineering teams, built developer relations from zero, shaped developer experience, and brought what customers and developers need back into product decisions.
AI makes that work more urgent. Buying the tools is the easy part. Trusted advice means not reducing every customer problem to the answer printed on my badge. I help leaders make the trade-offs explicit: open or proprietary, cloud or on-premises, and how convenience, control, and sovereignty should be balanced. Then I bring what we learn back into platforms, product decisions, and ways of working.
30 years in the trenches across government, telecom, financial services, ISVs, and security. Founded Great Success for interim IT leadership. Created the Agentile operating model because agile assumed all work is done by humans — and that assumption broke. Wrote the book on it: Ghost Decisions (2026).
Executive Advisory · Enterprise AI · Open Systems · Platform Engineering · Developer Relations
Want the full story? →> what_i_do
Strong opinions, working code.
Speaking & Keynotes
Conferences, leadership offsites, engineering teams. I talk about what happens when AI stops being a tool and starts being a teammate — and what your org needs to survive that shift.
Developer Relations & Community
Founding and scaling developer communities — open source, developer experience, and evangelism — then turning that into real adoption. I've built DevRel from zero and run the feedback loop back into product.
Technical Advisory
I advise CTOs and engineering leaders on AI adoption, developer experience, and platform engineering strategy. Not slideware — real decisions with real trade-offs.
Building Things
From murder mystery games with lying AI agents to platform engineering frameworks — I ship code, not just opinions. If it can be built, I've probably tried.
Writing & Ideas
The Engineering Beyond Agile essays, Ghost Decisions, and the Agentile operating model. One question: if humans can't be in every loop, what structure does speed need?
Enterprise AI Adoption
Getting frontier AI adopted inside large, regulated European organisations — where model choice, deployment control, sovereignty, governance, and engineering culture all have to survive contact with reality. I run that end to end.
> speaking
On stage.
Available for conferences, keynotes, leadership offsites, and engineering teams. Real-world stories. Zero hand-waving.
Talks and speaker kit →Upcoming
AI-era operating models. Platform engineering. Multi-agent orchestration, demonstrated with nine suspects who lie for a living. Talk abstracts, past events, and booking details are in the speaker kit.
Previously on stage
A sampler. The full speaker history lives on Sessionize.
- Fast Flow Conf UKOct '26
- CTO Craft Con: EuropeSep '26
- INIT 2026 Dev ConferenceSep '26
- WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026 - North AmericaSep '26
- DWX 26Jun '26
- DevBcnJun '26
… and 32 more on Sessionize.
> writing
Engineering Beyond Agile
Essays on the decisions behind human–agent teams. One question: if humans can no longer be in every loop, what structure does speed need?
The Wrong Job, Done Perfectly
Your AI didn't break any rules. That's the problem.
The Agentile PM Splits Into Three
The PM role fragments too
The CTO Role Has Outgrown the Org Chart
Three datasets, one pattern: the bottleneck is the people architecture
> book
Ghost Decisions
Your agents ship while you sleep. Who owns the decisions they make?
The book on accountability, architecture, and operating models for teams where AI does real work.
About the book and where to buy it →> projects
I ship code, not just opinions.
Open source contributions, side projects, and things I built because I wanted to see if they'd work.
Platform engineering framework for the agentic age. Deploy Azure resources through guided workflows with AI-assisted infrastructure.
ISEE Framework advisor agent — helps engineering leaders assess Intent, Structure, Execution, and Evidence layers in their organization.
A 2D AI-powered detective game where every NPC is an independent AI agent. Built with Phaser 3, Express, and the GitHub Copilot SDK.
Enterprise context setup wizard for GitHub Copilot. Scans your project, discovers MCP servers, and generates Copilot instructions — aligned to the ISEE framework.
> connect
Have a broken system? I probably have opinions.
AI adoption, developer strategy, or a platform that needs to earn its keep. Tell me what's stuck: suzanne@suuu.us.