Generative Architect — AI • Cloud • Blockchain • Distributed Systems
Senior Manager, EY · Santa Fe, NM
LinkedIn · Resume (PDF)
I design and build high-ambiguity, high-complexity systems:
agentic AI workflows, blockchain-backed platforms, and cloud-native distributed architectures.
- 30+ years in distributed systems (telecom & OODBMS → cloud & blockchain → agentic AI)
- 80+ AI-accelerated prototypes built in 2025
- Deep in AI-assisted development (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Augment)
- Domains: FinTech, carbon markets, public funds traceability, decentralized identity, ZKP
- Focus: building systems that real institutions can operate at scale
Hyperledger Besu · Azure Functions · Service Bus · Postgres
Agentic AI integration · multi-institution transparency · secure ledger evolution
Environmental commodity provenance platform.
Ledger-backed lifecycle tracking with DID/VC identity models.
Circom/Groth16 (BN254) circuits · encrypted event flows
UTXO-style private state · Pedersen commitments · on-chain verification
My approach to engineering is grounded in the Charles Moore / Forth philosophy: small systems, fast iteration, and tools that amplify human insight rather than replace it.
Forth was designed as a 10× cognitive amplifier — a minimal language that gave domain experts direct control, rapid feedback, and the ability to build systems faster than traditional software processes allowed.
Modern AI-assisted development is the continuation of that lineage.
Tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Augment, and Warp act as the contemporary equivalent of Forth: a friction-removal layer that expands what a single architect can create in short cycles.
Where Forth provided: • direct manipulation • compact expressions • immediate iteration • domain-specific extension
GenAI provides: • rapid prototyping • multi-language fluency • architectural exploration • instant scaffolding and refactoring • conversational system design
The principle hasn’t changed.
What has changed is the bandwidth. GenAI IDEs amplify architectural thinking by eliminating boilerplate, accelerating idea testing, and turning systems into something you can talk through rather than laboriously construct.
For me, generative engineering is not a trend — it’s the modern expression of the same ethos that powered Forth, early distributed systems, OODBMS work, and telecom innovations.
Small surface area. Fast cycles. Deep insight. Tools that extend the mind. Systems that emerge fully formed.
This is the core throughline of my practice: from Forth to Agentic AI, the goal is the same — amplify human clarity.
- system-alchemist — architecture notebooks, experiments, design patterns
https://github.com/perbergman/system-alchemist - All repositories:
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