Vadim Kuhay (rdd13r)

Enterprise AI Recovery Architect | Founder, Advanced Software Enterprises Inc

The Prediction

July 2023: I documented why 80% of enterprise AI initiatives would fail. Not because of AI—because of architecture.

August 2025: MIT proved me right at 95%.

While vendors sold magic, I wrote about recovery. Read the original prediction →

What I Do

I map your exact next steps — from crisis to working AI in production.

1. Put out the fire by knowing WHY;
2. Recover your journey by knowing HOW;
3. Fix your architecture — AI stays.

30+ years building systems that survive their first users - and serve their last user well.

Current work:

• Corporate AI recovery consulting;
• Modernizing 25-year defense systems for AI/AO;
• Building Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations;
• Designing and writing enterprise code daily since 1992.

Track Record Examples

• 11 enterprise transformations (60% avg cost reduction);
• 23+ startup bootstraps across 5 markets;
• 300+ engineers coached (the scene champion model);
• 50+ distributed systems imagined, built, and fielded;
• 99.99% uptime at scale 2000 till present.

Most Used Technical Stack

1. Architecture: Domain-Driven Design, Event-Driven Architecture, Microservices, CQRS
2. Languages: Kotlin, Scala, Java, Python, Go, Swift, ObjC, C++, C
3. Infrastructure: Bare-metal, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure, Akka, Kafka, Spring Boot
4. AI/ML: LLM integration, MCP, Keras/TensorFlow/JAX/PyTorch, Pandas, Scikit-learn
5. MLOps/MLInfa: MATILDA (ASE), Google Vertex AI, MLFlow, Hugging Face Transformers
6. Practices: XP (Extreme Programming), TDD, EventStorming, Clean Code/Architecture

Services

Advanced Software Enterprises Inc helps executives recover from failed AI implementations:

• $997 Diagnostic: 28-point assessment, 2 business days;
• $15K to $25K Assessment: Complete architectural discovery, 2-3 weeks;
• $50K to $350K Recovery: We execute the fix, 8-12 weeks.

Projects

• Masterclass: DDD & Event-Driven Architecture
• Book: DDD as effectively taught by coaching
• Methodology: Team coaching framework v7.1 published
• Community: Mímis Gildi | Gervi Héra Vitr | Gotham Village

Favorite Personal Activities

Homeschooling and mentoring the next generation of engineers, including my son Captain Lugaru.

"Architecture is trust. Code is conversation. Velocity comes from clarity."

Supporting Ukraine: Ukrainian-American supporting defense through Razom for Ukraine.