Hi, I'm Akif.

Banking 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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• Designing a Payments Domain Data Store on Azure Databricks

  12 May, 2026

  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.

• Six years inside a Tier-1 European bank: lessons in Wealth and Core Banking

  28 Apr, 2026

  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.