Orestes Garcia
Enterprise Architect & AI Development Pioneer
Head of Enterprise Architecture at City National Bank of Florida, leading a team of 12+ engineers building critical financial services infrastructure. 15+ years of experience transforming complex banking systems through cloud modernization and AI-driven development.
Creator of Claude Buddy, open-source tooling for Claude Code. Passionate about bridging the gap between enterprise requirements and modern development practices.
Latest Posts
TDX Day Two — The Floor Read
Day Two on the TDX floor answered the keynote questions and raised a bigger one. MuleSoft MCP Bridge is GA, React is sandbox-only, Vibes 2.0 ships a CLI, and the real Salesforce decision was never technical. The final dispatch.
Salesforce Headless 360 — The Day One Read
I walked into TDX expecting the maximalist Agentforce bundle pitch. Salesforce pitched the unbundle instead. Headless 360 decomposes Customer 360 into API endpoints, supports React and third-party agent harnesses, and deploys to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. Here is the architecture read from Day 1.
The Practical Value of a Salesforce Certification
A classmate holds twenty-three Salesforce certifications. Another holds thirteen. I hold two architect-track certs and I keep asking the same question: what is any of this actually worth inside a corporate org where nobody asks about your Trailhead ranger status in the Monday standup?