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
When the Agent Reaches for the Card
Your payment rails were designed around a human who pauses before they pay. Agentic commerce deletes the pause, and the authorization models racing to fill the gap do not agree on who is accountable for the charge. The design fork is not who moves the money. It is where the permission to move it lives, and whether that permission survives an agent-to-agent handoff.
The Second Brain Doesn't Ship
I argued markdown scales from a personal second brain all the way up to a company lattice, that the format never changes and only the graph grows. I was measuring one axis and missed a second. There are two axes of scale, not one, and the moment other people log in, plain files stop working. Here is where the second brain breaks, and the database-shaped thing that replaces it in production.
The Bank Got Dumber While Its People Got Smarter
Every engineer on your team is getting sharper with AI, and your institution is getting no smarter at all. The apprenticeship loop that taught skilled work for centuries moved into a private window, and nobody filed a ticket for it.