Hi, I'm Akif.
RSS FeedBanking data and integration engineer based in Almere, NL. I've spent the last six years inside a Tier-1 European bank across the Wealth Management and International Core Banking grid — designing Azure cloud-native data platforms, leading payments domain delivery, and shipping regulatory submissions to the European Central Bank and CESOP.
This is where I write about banking technology, integration design, and the practical realities of productionising GenAI inside enterprise platforms.
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Featured
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Designing a Payments Domain Data Store on Azure Databricks
Notes from the field on building a payments Domain Data Store on Azure Databricks — the modelling choices, the governance tradeoffs, and the moves that paid off in production.
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Six years inside a Tier-1 European bank: lessons in Wealth and Core Banking
Six years on, what I'd tell someone joining a Tier-1 European bank as a data and integration engineer — what's real, what's noise, and what compounds.
Recent Posts
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Productionising GenAI inside a multi-tenant SaaS — lessons from building HUB
What I learned shipping multiple GenAI use cases inside a production multi-tenant e-commerce automation SaaS — what works, what burns money, and what the hype docs leave out.