<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Akif Naveed</title><description>Banking &amp; Wealth Technology Engineer. Notes and deep-dives on payments, regulatory delivery (ECB · CESOP), Azure cloud-native architecture, and productionising GenAI inside enterprise platforms.</description><link>https://akif-site-five.vercel.app/</link><item><title>Designing a Payments Domain Data Store on Azure Databricks</title><link>https://akif-site-five.vercel.app/posts/designing-payments-domain-data-store-databricks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://akif-site-five.vercel.app/posts/designing-payments-domain-data-store-databricks/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Six years inside a Tier-1 European bank: lessons in Wealth and Core Banking</title><link>https://akif-site-five.vercel.app/posts/six-years-inside-tier-1-european-bank/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://akif-site-five.vercel.app/posts/six-years-inside-tier-1-european-bank/</guid><description>Six years on, what I&apos;d tell someone joining a Tier-1 European bank as a data and integration engineer — what&apos;s real, what&apos;s noise, and what compounds.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Productionising GenAI inside a multi-tenant SaaS — lessons from building HUB</title><link>https://akif-site-five.vercel.app/posts/productionising-genai-multi-tenant-saas/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://akif-site-five.vercel.app/posts/productionising-genai-multi-tenant-saas/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>